Article May 17, 1930 Issue

Problems and Their Solution

BLANCHE JANE COLE CROUCH

Human thought, with its limited finite beliefs, is never satisfied; and with the hope that its limitations may cease, it is constantly seeking different environment. As students of Christian Science, we have come to know, however, that limitations are the direct result of our own mistaken thinking, and that it is not a physical journey but a mental one that really needs to be taken. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 329) Mrs. Eddy writes, "If men understood their real spiritual source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace; but the deeper the error into which mortal mind is plunged, the more intense the opposition to spirituality, till error yields to Truth."

Whether the problem be that of a salesman who fails to bring in orders, of one who is expressing physical inharmony, or of a merchant who is unable to liquidate his debts, in each instance the same remedy is needed, namely, the recognition of the law of God, good, the law which is ever operative and which supplies all needs.

The salesman may not necessarily need to change his line of goods that he may become more successful, but he needs to change his thinking; and as soon as his thought is flooded with the truth about God, and about man's true relationship to Him, it is open to receive good. And improved conditions result from thinking that is more spiritual.

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