Article December 17, 1938 Issue

Working Impersonally

LILA P. BASEL

Throughout the world one of the questions upper-most in the thought of peoples and governments is how to better conditions affecting the prosperity, happiness, health, and well-being of men. Various have been the methods tried for that purpose. Some have proved helpful, others have failed. The entire corrective method for all the ills of mankind might always have been found in the Bible, had the search been sufficiently inspired. Nevertheless, it was not until Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of Christian Science that the Biblical promises were found to be available to all. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she has written (p. 406), "The Bible contains the recipe for all healing."

Oftentimes one begins the study of Christian Science because he himself or one close to him needs inspiration and healing. As the seeker's thought is lifted out of despair and fear, he naturally wishes to share his new-found understanding with others, and to follow the Biblical injunction, "Freely ye have received, freely give." But how may he give wisely and correctly? In what manner can he share his treasured understanding?

There is perhaps no subject more puzzling to the neophyte in Christian Science than that of handling error impersonally, as it is encountered in his daily contacts. Questions such as these naturally arise in his thought: How can one person correct errors so evident in other persons or in wrong situations? And how far may one go in denying error manifested by others, when his help is unsolicited? The answer to such questioning is that one has a right to see, and must see, all error as unreal, without actual presence or power. He has to see the real and only man as wholly spiritual, the complete reflection of his Maker, the son of God.

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