Editorial March 19, 1927 Issue

Persistent Right Thinking

Duncan Sinclair

"Let us not be weary in well doing," writes Paul to the Galatians: "for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." And as well doing presupposes right thinking, the apostle's words may be interpreted as meaning that if we persist in thinking rightly we shall reap the inevitable reward, since effect must inevitably follow its cause.

Christian Science makes a great deal of right thinking, and is consistent in so doing. Indeed, the task which Christian Science sets itself is to instruct mankind to think rightly about everything. And in this it begins with God, declaring that He is infinite Mind, and that as Mind He knows His own creation, which consists of perfect spiritual ideas. The universe—the real universe—is thus wholly mental and spiritual. Christian Science teaches, further, that man—the real man—is the idea of God, infinite Mind, and that he images or reflects all right or true ideas of Mind.

The truths which have just been stated underlie and determine the thinking of the Christian Scientist. He never forgets them. In thought he is continually reverting to them. And it is necessary that he should do so in order to counteract material sense, which apparently persists in arguing for a material universe in which evil claims to play an enormous part, sickness, suffering, sin—inharmony of all sorts—belonging to this illusory sense of creation. In other words, the Christian Scientist is equipped with the truths of Being, the truths relative to God and His perfect spiritual creation, including man; and thus equipped he is empowered to think rightly with regard to so-called material sense and all its false concepts, in this way destroying them.

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