Article December 14, 1935 Issue

Seeking Higher Ground

ELIZABETH G. MC KINSTRY

Much of the distress and upheaval so apparent in world affairs today may be attributed not only to a lack of understanding among nations and peoples, but most of all to a lack of a definite understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. If all men were honestly striving for more spirituality, striving to obtain a better knowledge of God, divine Principle, how much of the discord evidenced on every hand would melt away, and what a delightful world we should be living in!

Students of Christian Science are grateful that they are having a part in bringing to mankind a better understanding of God and His perfect creation, and of what He does for all. This is being very definitely accomplished through the activities of The Mother Church and its branches throughout the world, especially through the published word as sent forth from The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston. The truth about God and His creation, as revealed in Christian Science, is thus made available to all who desire surcease from the difficulties that would continually annoy and harass them. This does not mean that one's problems suddenly disappear merely through the acceptance of Christian Science and its teachings; but it does mean that one is enabled to rejoice that he has found a satisfactory means of solution of his problems. Because of the very nature of God, one finds that there is always room for a larger, fuller, better understanding of Him as infinite good. This unfoldment goes on continually, because of the limitless nature of infinity. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," (p. 258), "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."

During certain floods in the Middle West of the United States the word of warning went out by radio to the residents of the lowlands that they should move to higher ground. The river was rising rapidly, and it was considered probable that it would overflow its banks in a short time. One who had been a student of Christian Science for many years heard the warning, and, although in no danger from high water herself, felt a keen desire to help those in distress, and realized the need to think rightly about the situation in order to bless all concerned. She realized that "for right reasoning there should be but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence" (ibid., p. 492). Reversing the material evidence with the spiritual facts of being, she immediately saw that this was but a call to seek higher ground mentally, the higher ground of spiritual understanding, where safety lies. Not only in times of floods and disaster, but at all times, we need to turn from the low level of materiality or mortal mind thinking to the high level of Truth.

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