Article December 14, 1940 Issue

Are We Watching?

CAROLINE FOSS GYGER

Daily we may have been reading the newspapers, and frequently turning on the radio to listen to the news. In that case what is it that is in our thought? Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, admonishes us (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 210), "Keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." Are we obeying this command? Then we are turning constantly to the textbooks to refresh ourselves with the facts of being, and to recognize and reject the arguments of human thinking, as contradictory and illusive.

When Jesus talked with his disciples on the Mount of Olives, he prophesied that there would be wars and rumors of wars, that nation would rise against nation, that many would betray and hate one another, but that those who endured would see the Son of man come with power. "Then look up," he said. Are we looking up, and therefore beholding the power of the Son of man, as he promised?

Nearly forty years ago Mrs. Eddy wrote to a church in Scotland: "Be joyful in His reign of righteousness; though its coming may seem slow to sense, swift are His chariots of Love. Look up, and you will see they that are for us are more than they that are against us" (The Christian Science Journal, Vol. XXX, p. 285). As we follow the command given by Jesus and reiterated by our Leader, we cease to accept the pictures painted by mortal thinking, and behold the universe of Spirit and the man of Spirit's creating.

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