Article December 12, 1936 Issue

"Cherish humility"

MARGARET WINGFIELD

"Cherish humility, 'watch,' and 'pray without ceasing,' or you will miss the way of Truth and Love. Humility is no busybody: it has no moments for trafficking in other people's business, no place for envy, no time for idle words, vain amusements, and all the et cetera of the ways and means of personal sense" (Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 356). A dictionary defines the word "cherish" in part as follows: "Value, hold in one's heart, cling to." It is clear, then, that to be obedient to our Leader's injunction we must "cling to" humility. Whatever we consider to be to value to us we must hold in our heart.

In Christian Science we know that whatever we hold in our heart, our consciousness, we also put into practice in our daily experience. There is no doubt that we need to gain a deeper sense of humility by seeing, through the lens of Spirit, that we are at one with God, divine Mind, and that omnipotent and omnipresent Mind is the only intelligence.

Whenever we feel tired, lonely, unhappy, afraid, hurt, ill, and so forth, this shows that we are not expressing sufficient humility. We must therefore begin at once to see that we have not a mind of our own apart from God, as the carnal mind would have us believe, but that in our real being we reflect divine Mind. This being so, we are in reality the ever-active, ever-joyous, healthy, and beloved children of God.

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