Article September 1, 1923 Issue

Christian Science adheres to the highest Christian standards...

Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,

Cottage Grove Sentinel

Christian Science adheres to the highest Christian standards and eschews anything in the nature of deception. In fact, it is a definite rule laid down in Christian Science that genuine good can never be gained by evil means. We reap what we sow. Truthfulness and sincerity are mighty factors for good and harmony; deceitfulness, whether in big or little things, must inevitably work ill and beget discord. These eternal rules of conduct and thought have a broader application than we at first realize. When we learn in Christian Science the deceptive nature of the corporeal senses, which seem to dominate so much of human existence, we begin to understand that these deceitful senses are the prolific source of bodily ills and unhappiness. Turning away from such unreliable senses, Christian Science inculcates faith in spiritual sense, which testifies truthfully in regard to God, man, and the universe—the realm of the spiritually real—and this understanding of divine Truth confers harmony and brings good into human experience, displacing sickness with health, discord with happiness and contentment, and restoring confidence where distrust had been.

The Apostle Paul wrote: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." If, then, one grasps something of the true teachings of Christian Science, he will never associate it with anything but the highest Christian rules. The habit of striving for higher standards in our thinking has distinct advantages. "Hold thought," says Mrs. Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261), "steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts."

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