Editorial January 2, 1926 Issue

On Working Together

Duncan Sinclair

A retrospect may be very helpful if it is made with the intention of finding out how we might have done better. The New Year is by no means an unsuitable time for a backward glance; and, indeed, many take the opportunity for retrospection then. Besides, the New Year seems to present to them a future upon whose clean page much good may be written. They feel it consolatory to be able to close, as it were, the book of the old year, and helpful to begin afresh on a clean sheet. And it is pleasant for all to be able to look forward to the prospect of the achievement of better living and more efficient work. The Christian Scientist, especially, hopes for even happier and more fruitful days than he has yet experienced, days filled with joyous service and healings numerous and speedy, through his understanding of the truth which Christian Science has revealed to him.

No one is able to say that in the year which has just gone he has come up to the standard set by the Master: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect;" to the standard which Christian Science also has raised—the complete demonstration of the perfect man. That standard must, however, ever be before the Christian Scientist, since it is through his earnest desire to attain to it that he gains in spiritual understanding, and finds himself increasingly able to help humanity.

The Christian Scientist, then, will scan the past, not dolefully but wisely, to find wherein he has been remiss, first, in the application to his own problems of the truths which Christian Science has made known to him, towards the demonstration of a better sense of health, greater purity, and more fervent love to God and his fellow-man; and, second, in the application of these same truths to helping forward the Cause of Christian Science through the agency of The Mother Church or his branch church, in order to make divine Science better known to mankind. The conscientious student will not fail to take these retrospective glances. They often mean a great deal to him; for error must be detected before it can be overcome.

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