Article October 5, 1940 Issue

"How am I thinking?"

[Written Especially for Young People]

ALMEDA HARVEY ROFF

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE children are taught to look to their thinking, rather than to any mortal sense of body or environment—to do what our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, advises in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 392), namely: "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously."

When some falsity such as illness argues its presence, the alert student in a Christian Science Sunday School regards it as an opportunity to prove the harmonious allness of God. good, and the consequent nothingness of matter and its claims. He knows the wisdom of applying immediately his understanding of Christian Science: of affirming his inseparable oneness with God, Mind, and from this true viewpoint denying imperfection.

When confronted with the temptation to believe in some error, such as sickness, fear of an examination, misunderstanding, a youthful student of Christian Science found it helpful to withdraw quietly to her room, without voicing the error to anyone, and to clear her thought of the falsehood disturbing her. Her treatment was very simple. She affirmed God's unchanging perfection, omnipresence, and omnipotence, and declared that as God's reflection she was then and there as whole, as sound, and as satisfied as God. From the standpoint of these divine facts, she denied all power and presence to the error. If she was not able quickly to clear her confused thought, she would ask for assistance from a memner of her family or from a Christian Science practitioner.

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