Article May 4, 1940 Issue

On Thinking Rightly

HELEN CARLYLE MITCHELL

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." In this statement Shakespeare points to a fact which is fully explained in Christian Science.

To the Christian Scientist it is abundantly evident that thought is, directly or indirectly, the cause of all disease. Both good and evil thoughts affect the health, mode of living, and progress of every individual. A fuller sense of life, health, and happiness unfolds as one's thinking is governed by God, for as one's thoughts become more spiritual, one progressively gains dominion over the material senses.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 481), "God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss." And, reflecting God, man expresses "freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss." Consciousness of this fact brings freedom from all that is unlike good—harmony in domestic, church, business, national, and international affairs, and boundless scope and opportunity for the attainment of happiness.

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