Article December 15, 1934 Issue

"First the Kingdom of God"

[Original article in German]

BERTA TRACHSLER

A testimony was once given in a church by a woman who said: "I suffered from physical inharmony and worked against it according to the teaching of Christian Science. Then there came to me one day the story of a child who attended the Christian Science Sunday School. After the lesson the child said to his mother: 'My need is for a pair of new shoes.' Then the thought came to the woman, And what is my need? The answer was clear to her: My need is a clearer realization of the perfect spiritual man." The result of this spiritually clear desire was instantaneous healing. Evil was simply reduced to nothingness.

This incident recalls to us with special vividness the exhortation of Christ Jesus in his teaching: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Surely the healing came when the woman expressed the right desire to see God's man as a perfect idea in Mind, instead of merely wishing to be rid of the sickness. This is what the perception of God's creation does in the consciousness of men. The teaching of Christian Science is of incalculable value, in that it teaches men that the kingdom of heaven, the consciousness of spiritual creation as as present fact. Mortal mind cannot achieve the kingdom of heaven, but must surrender to the spiritual consciousness which reflects God's perfection.

To have that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" and to follow the Golden Rule must be the primary desire of to Christian Scientist. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy teaches men to have that consciousness which sin, sickness, and lack find by good, into which sin, sickness, and lack find no entry, and which, moreover, does not admit that any real problem exists to be worked out because human material thinking withdraws before the omnipresence and omnipotence of Spirit.

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