Editorial December 30, 1933 Issue

Widening Our Horizons

W. Stuart Booth

The widening of our mental horizons, the purpose of the new section of The Christian Science Monitor, will make an especial appeal to Christian Scientists. We shall welcome this section as an added sign of compliance with our Leader's wish that the newspaper established by her should be world-wide in its scope and appeal. Many of us before learning of and accepting the uplifting message of Christian Science had been influenced, if not quite governed, by the human tendency to have a narrow and cramped outlook on life. Because divine Love is the basis of Christian Science teaching and practice it is inevitable that consistent students of this Science find that selfishness, together with its disagreeable and disturbing camp followers, fear, greed, jealousy, and deceit, are progressively displaced by kindness and consideration for and interest in the welfare of others—in a word, unselfishness; and thus their horizon is widened.

Christian Science leads men upward and onward, so that they cease to be valley dwellers and become mountain climbers, rejoicing in ever broadening and truer views of all things. After one has dwelt in the valley of disease, discord, discouragement, and despair it is glorious and inspiring to be led on the ever mounting highway of spiritual understanding into the realization that health, harmony, and happiness are among God's manifold good gifts to man, and that naught can hinder one's conscious expression of them. The immediate effect of Christian Science upon a seeker for the truth is to widen his horizon, because Science first and always directs his thoughts away from matter to Mind, from evil to good, from body to Soul, spiritual consciousness.

As the students of Christian Science learns that he lives in the realm of thoughts, that all conditions are primarily and essentially mental, he perforce looks farther afield than when he accepted and was bound by the false belief that life, intelligence, and happiness are in and of matter. Perhaps he learns early in his study and practice of Christian Science that disease is associated closely with fear and selfishness and its various phases. Then, as these unattractive and unwholesome thoughts are supplanted by qualities of divine Principle, Love, such as gratitude, peace, purity, confidence, and joy, he proves that divine Love meets human needs, for he is healed. Obviously in connection with that healing the horizon of the student's thought has been pushed far back, and he beholds a much more pleasing prospect than when his thought was self-centered and fearful.

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