Article August 21, 1926 Issue

The Perfect Model

PERCY TAYLOR

The teacher of a class of art students, on entering the classroom one morning, remarked: "I notice that your first act, on arriving in the morning, is to put your canvas on the easel and take a good, long look at it. That is wrong. You should look first at the original. If you look first at your study, which is more or less faulty, your vision will become used to its errors, become clouded by them; then when you look at the model, you will see imperfectly. If you would first spend a little time looking at the original, you would be better able to correct the errors in your painting."

In our demonstration of Christian Science, is it not the contemplation of the mortal counterfeit that beclouds our spiritual vision and leads us to reproduce manifestations which are but a distorted sense of existence? The contemplation of the perfect and eternal must necessarily have a clarifying effect on human thought; and should not the aim of all mankind be to reach the point where thought will contemplate only the good always?

Evil would have us believe that we have so much to do, in dealing with the errors of mortal thought, that we cannot devote all the time we would wish to the realization of the perfect—God's realm. Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," and with this was coupled the promise that all that we need will be added. Seeking first the realm of the infinite, perfect, and eternal, we shall find therein all that is necessary to clear our thought of the errors that would hide the beauty and bounty of Mind's infinite goodness. Just in proportion to our seeking of God's kingdom shall we find less apparent need for the contemplation of sin, disease, and death.

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