Article February 14, 1925 Issue

"We are all sculptors"

MARGARET LATHAM HULL

A SCULPTOR is one who executes statues or other objects by carving or graving them from stone or other hard material, which he previously has modeled in some plastic substance, preparatory to the graving or casting. He has before him to start with a shapeless mass, which he sets about to transform into the image of his model. To the sculptor this mass is not what really concerns him, it is his model which he is thinking about, and it is this concept which he strives to bring out of the chaos.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 248) Mrs. Eddy tells us: "The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought." Should we, as sculptors "moulding and chiseling thought," continue to consider deeply the chaos before us? Should we not rather strive to transform it into the image of a perfect concept? Mrs. Eddy also says on the same page, "We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives."

"We must form perfect models in thought," we are told. How can we do this? Not by holding to imperfect models, but by turning resolutely away from them and replacing each with the perfect idea. Our greatest Exemplar of a grand and noble life, Christ Jesus, did this consistently, displacing sin, disease, and death with love and health and harmony. "Go, and sin no more," meant a turning away from seeming evil to the perfect model of purity; "Stretch forth thy hand," meant the rejection of the manifestation of disease for the perfect model of health; "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise," meant a denying of the belief in death, with the perfect concept of eternal Life.

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