Article May 17, 1924 Issue

A Fresh Start

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

One of the many cheering aspects of Christian Science to the pilgrim who is striving to find his way out of the fog of materialism into the sunshine of spirituality is that there is no time, place, or circumstance which can prevent him from making a fresh start. Just where he is at the moment when the desire to do better comes to him, is the place to make a new start. No past failure, fear, disease, or sin can keep him from making a splendid new beginning. However difficult or muddled the past may have seemed, he can start at once to work his way out and up; and nothing can hinder his progress, if he be honest and in earnest.

The Bible tells us in the thirty-first chapter of Deuteronomy that "the Lord thy God ... doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee;" and we read in Mrs. Eddy's work, "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 347), these beautiful words: "Those who know no will but His take His hand, and from the night He leads to light." What greater comfort could any one have in an honest endeavor to make a fresh start, than to know and understand the ever-presence and protection of God?

With Jesus, the teaching and healing work for others was always preliminary to a new beginning. He corrected the belief when it presented itself, that any past event could prevent any one who honestly desired spiritual healing from being healed and, thereafter, starting afresh. When he healed the one born blind, as it is recorded in John's gospel, he refused to admit that any past circumstance or relationship could bring on a condition which could not be seen instantly as nothing, through the understanding of Truth. What a wonderful experience it was for this youth who had lived in darkness all his days to have his eyes suddenly opened! What a marvelous beginning afresh it must have meant to him!

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