Article September 11, 1926 Issue

Utilization of Truth

HELEN G. BOWLES

Each one who comes to Christian Science is reaching out, searching, longing, for something better than what he already is cognizant of. It may be better health that he is seeking; it may be better moral or business conditions, or better religious teaching, because his former religious beliefs have failed to answer his eager questioning as to the wherefore or the why of his unsatisfied longing.

If one comes to Christian Science to be freed from inharmonious physical conditions, how is this freedom to be accomplished? The healing of mere bodily conditions might accomplish little more than a drug, if it were not accompanied by a better understanding of man's relationship to God. And what is man's relationship to God? Is one merely to understand that man is the image and likeness of God, good, and leave it there? Or is one to endeavor to this truth by putting into use or action what he has thus learned? And how may he utilize this knowledge and make it practical?

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, in speaking of the real man (p. 516), "As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God." The reflection of God, then, means that man reflects the dominion that is of God—the power, presence, and consciousness that are of God, good. In order to utilize these facts, one must first claim his spiritual heritage, and then make it valid by acting accordingly, or in obedience to divine Mind; and this is the spiritual understanding which regenerates. As one understands this fact, and as he uses or utilizes his knowledge, receiving it into thought and putting it into action, in that measure he presents the reflection of Truth, God.

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