Article February 28, 1931 Issue

Environment

PEARL MAY SCHLUETER

A Student of Christian Science was impressed at the sight of a beautiful flower garden within a railroad yard. Some of the plants were in bloom; others had green foliage and buds. A garden among the cinders and railroad tracks! These flowers, then, were able to bloom in such surroundings, in spite of the smoke and dirt from the trains. Indeed, the contrast was striking.

In making these observations the student thought, How like ourselves! How many of us are sometimes weighed down with a problem of inharmonious environment! If only we could be here or there, or if our family ties and business associations were different, we think we could work out our problem so much better. Let us pause for a moment and see if this is true.

In the first place, we must remember that mortal mind is false. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 592) Mrs. Eddy defines "mortal mind," in part, as follows: "The opposite of Spirit, and therefore the opposite of God, or good." Since mortal mind is nothing, the supposititious opposite of God, or good, we should not believe any of its false arguments. We should deny every claim that it presents. Possibly certain of its arguments have been listened to and have continued for some time unchallenged. We may even have believed them and allowed self-pity to come in, thinking that our environment rather than false belief was the cause of all our trouble.

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