Article December 15, 1934 Issue

Character Building

[Written Especially for Young People]

MARY KERN TIPS

Every substantial building, from a skyscraper to a modest bungalow, is carefully designed and erected according to approved standerds of construction, and a properly laid foundation precedes actual construction. Plans are diligently studied and faithfully followed by the workmen, who turn turn for direction in carrying out the specifications. So it is in character building; no one can plan an extended course of action without vision, or intelligently proceed without some plans. Beginnings necessarily involve endings.

Whatever one's line of the vary pursuit implies an ultimate. To vision a definite goal is practical and praiseworthy. To maintain a consistent course necessitates thinking of a high order, thinking which is based upon a higher authority than human theories acknowledge. Christian Science is teaching us to depend for unerring guidance upon divine Mind, the source of all intelligent action. This infinite Mind, which is wholly separate from material beliefs and mistaken opinions, enables us to reason soundly, and thereby to arrive at satisfactory conclusions in all matters relating to our progress. In other words, infinite divine Mind enables us to work from standpoint of our true and spiritual selfhood.

Harmonious results follow in natural sequence every human task when the worker's thought is based on correct spiritual premises. Mrs. Eddy says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 274), "To begin rightly enables one to end rightly, and thus it is that one achieves the Science of Life, demonstrates health, holiness, and immortality."

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