Article November 21, 1925 Issue

To-day

GERTRUDE L. HATCH

It is desirable to follow those admonitions regarding to-day which tend to righteousness; for each day's work is truly successful proportionately as it is imbued with the divine attributes of honesty, justice, wisdom, and love. The Bible, as interpreted by Christian Science, teaches that to-day, as always, the parent Mind, God, and His offspring, man, coexist and coact in perpetual harmony. Each day Jesus demonstrated this divine relationship, and invitingly promised others that they could follow his method. The intervening generations have left many signs showing that humanity has believed in God's goodness, but has lacked somewhat the understanding of how to claim it. This need is supplied today in Christian Science.

Some individuals who trust God daily do not realize that from this trust there should come definite results, which, to be experienced, must be claimed. One may have rich, exhaustless treasures; but unless these are claimed, and made of practical use, they are valueless to the owner. His lack is due to the fact that he does not claim his own. It is similar with the individual who is not experiencing daily his divine right to health, happiness, and the unfolding of good in his experiences, since God's goodness is free and exhaustless. The Holy Bible admonishes that we "forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." Daily, through gaining and applying the correct understanding of God and man, mortals may increasingly lay hold of man's divine right to freedom and success.

"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." These encouraging words begin the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. A dictionary defines "to lean" as "to incline or bend so as to receive support." As man is the image of God, divine Mind, such inclination for mankind is mental, a yielding of the human will to the divine. To lean on Mind implies no other support—that is, no faith in another power, no fear of or love for sin, no yielding to or belief in disease; but instead, denial of these, and an unyielding trust in, and constant effort to be conscious of, God's omnipresent goodness. To sustain man is to uphold and protect him; it is to keep him joyous, so that he cannot become involved in despondency, malice, fear, or any error; it is to meet all his needs, giving him those things which comfort and tend to righteousness; it is to maintain him in correct relationship with his brother, and to keep his affairs in order and harmony, both mentally and outwardly. The understanding of God is doing all this for men to-day.

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