Article January 21, 1939 Issue

Finals

[Written Especially for Young People]

HINDA H. SATTLER

The word "finals" is applied to a series of examinations or tests which, at the end of each semester of the college term, are decisive and conclusive. By his grading, the student knows whether he has succeeded or failed in passing them; and the senior student, in the last semester, knows whether he will graduate. During his years at college, there is apt to be an underlying fear of the "finals."

If the student is a Christian Scientist, he knows how to defend himself against the mesmerism of fear, and is responsible for doing it. He is equipped with the knowledge of God that is power. This knowledge is the great fact that God is the only Mind. What a wonderful sense of security these words convey! Because God is the only Mind, one need not be the victim of mental wanderings. Man, in God's image and likeness, is the expression of God—infallible, immutable Mind.

The true sense of his God-given ability relieves the student of a false sense of burden-bearing. Just as the ray of light is dependent upon the sun for its shining, so is man dependent upon Mind for his intelligence. In "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 57) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Man shines by borrowed light. He reflects God as his Mind;" and in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she further sates (p. 511), "This Mind forms ideas, its own images, subdivides and radiates their borrowed light, intelligence."

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