Article January 2, 1926 Issue

Circulation of Real Values

UNA B. WILLARD

It is a great joy to feel that, as one walks through what Mrs. Eddy calls in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 513) "the teeming universe of Mind," right ideas are sometimes revealed to us by way of incidents and parables, ideas which by their constructiveness leaven future action. Such an incident occurred one morning as a Christian Scientist handed the conductor of a street car a coin to pay her fare. The conductor promptly returned the money, saying it was counterfeit. She, of course, exchanged it for another from her purse; and instantly the thought came: Shall I be able to detect the counterfeit, so as to take it out of circulation? And then there quickly followed the thought: How necessary it is that each person who detects a counterfeit take it out of circulation! As she sought the coin and put it into a separate compartment of her purse, she felt glad there was one less counterfeit coin in circulation.

Then like a flash came the truth as applicable to the Science of living, the truth always waiting to enter consciousness—that every false claim of matter which comes to us must be detected as counterfeit and immediately taken out of circulation. Hand in hand with this truth came its effect, that spiritual incentive which gives impetus to vigorous, accurate, painstaking work, through the realization that every false claim that one takes out of circulation does lessen the hold of that particular supposititious claim on all humanity.

If all persons to-day would become alert to their ability to detect counterfeits, and promptly take each out of circulation, there would soon be few left. If every person to-day who has a claim of sickness or sin, or any inharmony, would meet that claim as its master, thus taking it out of circulation, the whole world would certainly experience more of peace and joy and happiness. We are thinking of something each moment; and we need to realize that it is the very thoughts we are thinking in the quiet of the night, in the activity of midday,—whether we are alone or in the midst of a surging crowd,—it is these very thoughts that indicate which master we are choosing to serve. "Choose you this day whom ye will serve." Choose each moment whether you will think a thought of unhappiness or joy, of success or failure, of health or sickness, of comfort or pain, of Spirit or matter; for it is the choosing aright each moment that makes up the day during which the very gates of heaven may be opened to us.

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