Article March 3, 1934 Issue

"For I am meek"

LOUISE RAVENS

In the Bible record which tells of the earthly career of Christ Jesus we find many references to his meekness, his humility, his lowliness. He himself is quoted as saying, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, ... for I am meek and lowly in heart." Indeed, he makes the "rest" which is to be found by his followers contingent upon the attitude of humility: "Learn of me; ... and ye shall find rest unto your souls." In the light of this promise we may assume that meekness is a necessity, if the seeker for Truth wishes to find spiritual joy; and, furthermore, that this same characteristic is an essential qualification for the success of our healing ministry. Let us see why this is true.

A dictionary defines "humble," in part, as "unpretending, unobtrusive." To be meek is to be "of gentle and longsuffering disposition." How well these definitions accord with our understanding of what Christian Scientists should be! Unpretending, that is, sincere, not setting ourselves up to be what in fact we are not, but rather seeing man as he is, spiritual and perfect; unobtrusive—that is, not letting error obtrude a false sense of man upon our own thought, or, by our wrong thinking, obtrude error upon the thought of others! Since God is All, there is no occasion to be anything but gentle, patient, kind.

But we know that in Christian Science it is insufficient not to pretend, not to obtrude. A merely negative condition of thought is of little healing value. Primarily, we must affirm; we must know the truth positively. And here we find the clue to the meekness of the Master. Jesus knew. And that which he knew, that which he constantly affirmed in his own thought, was his oneness with divine Mind. This consciousness of his unity with good was so real to him that it was in truth his mental abode, his house, the atmosphere in which he lived. Mrs. Eddy says of him (No and Yes, p. 36), "The human Jesus had a resort to his higher self and relation to the Father, and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of his being."

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