Article February 12, 1927 Issue

Living the Truth

DELLA M. WHITNEY

How consistently did the master Christian, Christ Jesus, practice the truth! How perfectly did he prove that he could be in the world but not of it! He walked among his fellow-men, listening to their rehearsals of inharmony and disease, but always so conscious of good as the only reality as to heal all who came to him for healing.

The more fully each one is able to realize his unity with God, the more correctly is he able to think and the more steadfastly to live the truth. A clear understanding of what true humility is and a practical daily application of it are indispensable to the growth of the Christian Scientist. As he realizes that God, the only creator, who is Spirit and perfect, made man in His image and likeness, he comprehends that man is perfect and complete, entirely subject to God's government. Since creation, including man, is finished and is spiritual, creation can no more be changed into a sinful, sick, and inharmonious state than light can be transformed into darkness.

One who was just beginning the study of Christian Science said to another student that she felt it was going to be very hard to live up to its teachings, as they were so very exacting. The student addressed then endeavored to point out to this seeker that the right way is in the long run always the easiest way. When one is living righteously he is sowing to the spirit, and the promise for so doing is the reaping of everlasting life; while the one who is treading the path of materiality, even though it may appear at times to be the easy way, will eventually begin to encounter rough places and find that way to be scattered with thorns, and that the allurements which seemed so satisfying at the beginning of the journey have failed in their promise of happiness and peace. In other words, he will discover that he has been sowing to the flesh, and that in consequence he is reaping corruption, that which is false or unreal.

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