Article January 3, 1925 Issue

True Wisdom

MINNA MATHISON

Many an individual cherishes the belief that he is handicapped in his progress through life by a lack of educational advantages, or mental equipment of some other kind. He believes, and binds himself with the belief, that he is less able than another to do work of a high order, or to fill a place of responsibility or eminence in the world of affairs. His sense of lack may be with regard to native talent, education, practical training, social culture, or any of the kinds of knowledge which, it is believed, enable one to fulfill his highest ideal of useful and honorable service.

The student of Christian Science soon learns that he must discard his old concept of what constitutes knowledge, and replace it with true wisdom or spiritual understanding. In the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read on page 590: "Knowledge. Evidence obtained from the five corporeal senses; mortality; beliefs and opinions; human theories, doctrines, hypotheses; that which is not divine and is the origin of sin, sickness, and death; the opposite of spiritual Truth and understanding." What the student really needs to do, therefore, is to change his thought about the essentials of education. He will then find an abundance of right ideas manifested in his experience in the way of higher and enlarged capabilities to meet the demands of his work, with or without the technical or academic advantages once deemed indispensable.

Moreover, the student's outlook is so changed by his spiritual progress that he scarcely analyzes the steps by which he has been led to this higher basis of thinking and demonstration. The change is, however, simple and natural, being based on fundamental truth. He now knows himself to be the child of God, the expression of the infinite Mind, which is infinitely good; and this knowing is reflected in a consciousness refreshed and liberated by the removal of old fears and limitations. He now loves his fellow-men, whereas formerly he scorned or envied or hated them. He now knows the true nature of work as the activity of right ideas; and in humble willingness to bring "every thought to the obedience of Christ," he begins to manifest the Christ-mind in love, intelligence, and dominion over evil.

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