Article October 26, 1929 Issue

"Thou shalt not kill"

MARGARET A. L. NOWELL

EVERY earnest student of Christian Science has longed to express more continuously and clearly the divine nature which he knows to be his true selfhood, has deplored his frequent lapses from the standard which his study has in a measure revealed to him, and has battled with the beliefs which seem to obstruct the way.

The experience of one student may be helpful in pointing out the unlabored operation of divine Love. This one, a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School, once asked a six-year-old boy what he thought was the meaning of the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." After a few moments came the answer, "It means thou shalt not kill Love's thoughts." This did not immediately make a very strong impression; but the words so insistently recurred in thought that the student finally sat down to examine quietly what message from God they had to convey, and so doing found a heavenly answer to many prayers.

The simplicity of thought of the children often arrives at vital truths in such a direct manner and makes such lucid application of what it apprehends, that this little boy's reply, for example, when examined was found to contain the key to much that had before seemed difficult in the effort to bring out a clearer reflection of the Mind of Christ. It was realized that God's thoughts are continually present and that He expresses the true individuality of each one of them. There is no need, therefore, for strenuous human effort, since man's true selfhood, including all right thoughts or ideas, already exists as the perpetual witness of God's perfection. The real man has no power to deviate from this divine order. He is the eternal recipient of God's bounty; he is the radiant expression of good.

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