Article October 25, 1930 Issue

Identification with Good

SARAH NEWMEYER

We are always children of God, but if we are asleep to this fact it has little effect upon our present human experience. Only in so far as we are conscious of our spiritual unity with God, good, are our human affairs brought into coincidence with the happy plan of the divine Mind. Even with so universal an experience as a sunny day, only those enjoy it who are aware of its brightness and beauty.

The joyful awareness of present good is not dependent, however, upon external conditions; it can be experienced even when its supposititious opposite seems most apparent. This fact was illustrated to a student of Christian Science during a demonstration over facial disfigurement, the result of an accident. Observers and friends who did not understand Christian Science feared that the injury would be permanent, and for ten days the material evidence supported their belief to an alarming degree. But material evidence that denies the power and availability of good never rests upon a real foundation; and within six weeks the demonstration was complete.

The student was, of course, deeply thankful for the healing; and, years after, a sense of gratitude for this particular demonstration often recurs. But the outstanding blessing received was an unforgettable realization that the time to begin to enjoy any demonstration is even before it is visibly manifest. During the testing time, when those about her averted their eyes, the student worked to realize the truth contained in Mrs. Eddy's words, "The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony;" and, "Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 247, 248). These and other passages from our Leader's writings sustained and uplifted her, but she had to struggle to maintain a sense of peace and trust. It was not until after the demonstration began to be outwardly manifested that joy came, and with it gratitude.

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