Article December 3, 1938 Issue

"Ye . . . saw no similitude"

DOROTHY MARY HUTCHINGS

A GREAT deal is said and written today about personality. In business and salesmanship it is believed to be a definite asset, and people are taught to cultivate a strong or attractive personality; while others, who seem to lack it, are said to suffer from an inferiority complex which debars them from gaining the rewards that seem so easily attained by those who have what is called a good opinion of themselves.

One of the things for which we should be deeply grateful to Christian Science is the manner in which it differentiates clearly between the material personality and one's real selfhood as the child of God. Each of us has, in belief, a personality which, sometimes, one may think he would gladly exchange for that of another, whose lot appears happier or more successful than his own. Some are retiring, shy, or self-conscious; others are masterful and domineering. Few, perhaps, are satisfied with the figure which they present to the world.

Christian Science comes to show us the truth about our real selfhood as God's children; and as we gradually grasp the great fact of spiritual individuality, and identify ourselves with it, a change for the better takes place in us. We build up character and strengthen the weak places by knowing that God's children reflect those qualities which to human sense seem lacking. Mortal selfhood is illusory, an expression of mortal mind, which is itself unreal.

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