Article February 23, 1929 Issue

The First Step

SARAH EDITH WELTI

When Christian Science enters one's life, one soon finds his viewpoint on many subjects changing; and an entirely new standard has to be reckoned with. Instead of the limited prospect of a few years to live, and of uncertainty concerning what then awaits him, one finds hope springing up and broadening his view, giving joy and bright promise. As one advances in understanding, burdens of fear begin to lessen, and a truer sense of life unfolds with every step. With new understanding one realizes the meaning of Jesus' words, "With God all things are possible."

Christian Science gives a new synonym for God, namely, divine Mind. This does away with the old concept of a manlike God; and the student begins to realize that it is this divine Mind, this divine intelligence, this infinite Life and Love that created everything "very good," and made man in God's own image and likeness, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis. The sincere seeker for Truth begins to discover the real man as a spiritual, divine idea, reflecting God, and commences to build on a true spiritual basis, with right reasoning.

If God is infinite Mind, how can the real man have a mind separate from and unlike that of the creator, in whose likeness he is fashioned? Oh, the joy of true spiritual knowledge! Where do evil and limitation go? They never were created, and therefore have no existence apart from conjecture. Belief in the existence of two opposite powers is the forbidden fruit of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" whereof God said, "Thou shalt not eat of it." This false knowledge is mortal, because it is erroneous, suppositional. It starts from a false material basis, from a false premise, namely, the belief of life in matter. Did not Jesus tell the people not to judge "according to the appearance," but to "judge righteous judgment"?

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