Article August 3, 1929 Issue

"The pure in heart"

MARY ALEXIA CUSACK

How limited was our concept of purity until the study of Christian Science revealed to us its all-embracing character! Without the foundation of purity there can be no spiritual progress. In one short, clear statement Mrs. Eddy gives us her estimate of the importance of purity, where she writes, in a marginal heading in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 337), "Purity the path to perfection."

With such direct simplicity our steps are guided heavenward into the path where all aims, hopes, desires, affections, and thoughts are purified of the dross of materiality. It sometimes seems to human sense that suffering is the way of this purification; but divine Love leads ever onward, and our thoughts begin to mount upwards to that vision of the truth where God is revealed as All and man is seen as His pure idea.

To those struggling with the problems of daily living, wearied with outworn, impractical dogma and creed, medical theories and methods, how attractive, because true, are the pure, scientific teachings of Christian Science! With what avidity the seekers after Truth reach out to know more of God's goodness! For deep in the heart is the desire for goodness, although this may seem to be but faintly expressed at times. A writer has said, "The unrest of the world is its unvoiced cry after God."

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