Article September 19, 1936 Issue

Help in Human Experience

WARREN O. EVANS

When a person considers himself merely as a human being, composed of both good and evil characteristics, abilities and disabilities, he is bound to be dissatisfied with his human experience and affairs in general. Doubtless, he desires to improve or change his confused sense of things, yet he has not the slightest idea how to go about it. He may, however, have caught a glimpse of the stern fact that in the search after merely material things there always come dissatisfaction and possible failure, inasmuch as such endeavors are foreign to his spiritual nature, which, in his desire for improvement, is asserting itself.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. viii) Mrs. Eddy writes, "To develop the full might of this Science, the discords of corporeal sense must yield to the harmony of spiritual sense." Spiritual enlightenment, or the recognition of our spiritual estate, is then the one thing needed. This needful thing is the awakening to the nature of God, infinite intelligence, and to man's true selfhood as God's expression. Christian Science is bringing to mankind this spiritual understanding. Thinking and acting in accordance with God's spiritual law lift one above dissatisfaction or failure, since God's law furnishes limitless opportunities for every sincere seeker after Truth.

As God is revealed to be infinite Mind, the human consciousness is lifted out of its inaction or lethargy into a correct sense of Life, God, and of man as God's image and likeness. The human being begins to realize that his real selfhood, being the expression of infinite Mind, could not be bound by dissatisfaction or discontent or failure, since such conditions are not to be found in God, Mind. On page 305 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy tells us that "a discontented, discordant mortal is no more a man than discord is music." It is evident, then, that God's man knows nothing of the discords of human existence.

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