Article July 24, 1926 Issue

Right Thinking Essential

WILLIAM SCHWARTZ

On page vii of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy has written, "The time for thinkers has come." Christian Science is Science; and, therefore, in order to gain a firm and workable understanding of God, the divine Principle of Christian Science, we must think. It is not enough just to go over the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly daily, or to read something from the Bible or our Leader's works. That is all right; but it is a necessity that we ponder what we read, striving to understand.

One may ask, What shall I think about? The student of Christian Science never lacks subjects for constructive thinking. Let him turn, for example, to the Scriptural accounts of what are termed miracles and strive to understand how they were accomplished; let him study the narratives of Joseph, Daniel, the three Hebrews, and others, and seek the same Truth that opened the eyes of these, God's witnesses, caused them to trust in Him, and enabled them to come through sore trials unscathed. It is through thinking we learn of Truth; and in our textbook we have the guide to right thinking.

On page 313 of Science and Health we read: "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Could Jesus have done so without thinking? He was the Way-shower; and we must follow him. That Mrs. Eddy delved deeply into the Bible writings, pondered them, and strove to understand them, is evident. She too "plunged beneath the material surface of things," and what she beheld caused her to write as the first tenet of Christian Science (Science and Health, p. 497), "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life."

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