Article December 16, 1933 Issue

Right Balance

GORDON V. COMER

A well-balanced person is regarded generally as an individual who exercises good judgment in attending to his human affairs—one who does not swing to extremes in one direction or in another; one who is not precipitate in determining a course of procedure, finding later, perhaps, that it may be necessary to retrace his steps; one who does not procrastinate so that his steps, when taken, lose their effectiveness; one who expresses a high sense of integrity in his dealings with others.

In considering balance, one may instinctively think of an instrument for weighing. A Christian Scientist seeks to attain to that state of consciousness which, while it is consistent with the absolute truth about God and man, also takes cognizance of the sense of things in human experience. Christian Science teaches that the good which is necessary for human welfare rightfully belongs to man, and that man cannot be deprived of it. Therefore, in striving to gain true equanimity Christian Science is found to be indispensable.

Perhaps no Bible story is more apropos to this subject than is the familiar one of Christ Jesus feeding the multitudes with a few small loaves and fishes. With the Master it was not merely a question of multiplication of bread and fishes to meet a demand. Christ Jesus was so conscious of the limitlessness of God's goodness that the problem to him was not merely a large number of men, women, and children and a small amount of food with which to feed them. Instead of accepting the suggestion that there was in reality a lack of balance between supply and demand, he was conscious of the presence of God's abundant goodness and of supply and demand as balanced expressions of divine Mind. This sense of ever present and abundant good so far outweighed in his consciousness the suggestion of lack that he was able to make a demand upon his "balance on the side of good," to use Mrs. Eddy's words on page 104 of "Miscellaneous Writings," with the result that his clear realization of God's largess was expressed to those around him in terms which they were capable of comprehending.

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