Article November 26, 1932 Issue

Your Light!

[Written Especially for Young People]

JEAN ELSIE SANDERS

HOW comfortable it may seem to sit down part way up a mountain and feel the solid security of one's resting place! But how undeniable that mere sitting, no matter how enchanting the view or how desirable the nook, will not bring us one inch nearer the summit ! And how simple it appears to trust in the understanding of practitioners and those who have prepared the path farther for the solving of one's perplexing problems!

Jesus knew that mortals have always been prone to borrow oil of their more provident neighbors, so he included in his great Sermon on the Mount a sentence which amply instructs this sort. He said, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

"Your light"! Genuine Christian Scientists cannot shine in borrowed glory. This applies as certainly to the Sunday school student as to the practitioner, teacher, or lecturer. It is not enough for us to acknowledge and admire spirituality in the lives of others. To admit that our spiritual understanding has yet much to attain is true humility; but to say that our grasp of Truth is inadequate, merely because we have not the desire to face the path ahead of us, may be laziness of the worst sort.

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