Article October 1, 1938 Issue

"Let us lay aside every weight"

OLGA MARIA BREYMANN

THERE is hardly a young or even a grown-up person who has not looked forward to seeing an airship rise. There is much that must be thought of and carried out by the crew in charge before the airship can rise and proceed towards its destination. Every necessary preparation must be completed and superfluous baggage left behind. These preliminary steps are necessary. And when all is in readiness, there remains yet one vital step that must be taken before the airship can proceed on its way—namely, the casting off of the ropes that attach it to its moorings.

Let us regard this modern experience in the light of Christian Science and we shall see that several valuable lessons can be learned from it. When we first take a trip by air we know that new wonders await us, and that a wider panorama will stretch out before us as the airship rises. We shall be introduced to perspectives hitherto unknown.

When we consider the might, majesty, wonder, beauty, and scope of Christian Science, and prayerfully and earnestly desire to rise into a higher understanding of Truth, we must see to it that our thoughts and motives are pure, true, and spiritual. All false characteristics that may be likened to superfluous or excess baggage, must be discarded, in order that we may rise higher and progress further. The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews admonishes, "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Until we see that material sense, with its endless etceteras, does not help us to rise higher in the understanding of existence as spiritual, we shall not realize true peace, health, and prosperity, and shall still be handicapped by our belief in matter—material things or conditions. This is where self-analysis is particularly essential. It is not always easy for us immediately to recognize that a wrong sense of responsibility, personality, pleasure, appetite, and law is none other than material belief masquerading under different guises.

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