Article October 17, 1931 Issue

The Christian Science Quarterly

IONE SCOTT

The Christian Science Quarterly is of inestimable benefit to the student, since it unfolds a systematic course of study applicable to daily human needs. The study of the Lesson-Sermons found in the Quarterly should be undertaken for the purpose of a further unfoldment of good. Accordingly, thought should be humbly lifted in prayer with the desire to be guided by the one Mind, the divine Principle, Love, which governs man and the universe in perfect order and harmony. To lift one's thought, however, and keep it lifted above the mortal seeming of a material universe and material man, requires daily application of the rules laid down in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

The Lesson-Sermons cover every subject necessary to a fundamental, demonstrable understanding of God, teaching mankind how to live in obedience to the spiritual laws of Life. Even though the same subject be studied every day for a week, yet each day teaches new applications of it for specific problems. How many times have students of Christian Science found that the Lesson-Sermon for the current week has in a wonderful way met their needs, day by day, as a passage from the Bible or Science and Health illumined their consciousness, destroying some counterfeit belief claiming recognition!

The Psalmist sang, "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." We turn to our textbook and find this definition of "angels" (p. 581): "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality." The counteracting influence of daily spiritual thinking gradually but with certainty breaks the lethargic dream of material sense. And it not only brings individual blessings but blesses universal human consciousness, leavening thought with the truth. It gives inspiration and purer motives to the hearts of men, thus bringing out the government of divine Principle. Love, in human affairs.

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