Article January 14, 1928 Issue

"Pure humanity, friendship, home"

EMILY TURNER

In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 100) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Pure humanity, friendship, home, the interchange of love, bring to earth a foretaste of heaven. They unite terrestrial and celestial joys, and crown them with blessings infinite." Through the inspired teaching of our beloved Leader we find that one of the first proofs of our sincerity in the study and practice of Christian Science is our attitude toward our fellow-man.

"Humanity" has been defined as "the kindly feelings and dispositions of man toward his fellow-man." In the transition from the unreal to the real, indicated by Mrs. Eddy on page 115 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the first of the moral qualities mentioned is "humanity." If we entertain kindly feelings and a kindly disposition toward everyone, we are showing forth a pure humanity. At times this may seem to be a difficult task. One may say that some person is most unkind and badly disposed toward him. This, however, should be regarded as an opportunity to test our application of Christian Science.

Christian Science plainly teaches that evil is unreal; that it is merely a false belief, and must be dealt with as such. Our first effort, then, should be to separate error from our sense of man, by knowing that every individual idea is the reflection of good, the expression of Life, Truth, and Love; and that since God, good, is the only power, the seeming error which confronts us has no power at all. Following this trend of thought, we can safely leave the outcome of every problem to divine Mind, knowing that in that Mind all is harmonious. The result must surely be made manifest in a more harmonious sense of existence.

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