Article May 25, 1940 Issue

"Call upon me in the day of trouble"

DOROTHY HUNT SMITH

How grateful we should be to Mrs. Eddy for her consecrated labors! After her discovery, she unselfishly devoted all her efforts to the founding of Christian Science, thus making available to all mankind the truths she had discerned and demonstrated. Through Christian Science our human experience is blessed as we gain in spiritual understanding. In correcting and spiritualizing our own thinking we can find the solution of all our problems.

Our happiness is not contingent on another's actions or thoughts; it comes as the result of gaining the true concept of God and man. We may therefore confidently expect that as our thoughts are spiritualized and uplifted, our experience will be proportionately improved. As we learn to claim more of our God-given ability to reflect the perfect Mind, more of spiritual completeness and abundance will be made manifest to us. Nor is this transformation dependent on time for fulfillment. We may become aware of His beneficent influence at any moment that we are willing to turn away from materiality and perceive and acknowledge His allness.

We have, at all times, sovereign power to accept or reject each thought that presents itself to our consciousness. We can examine each thought to see whether it is good or evil. If good, hence of God, we accept it, and good becomes part of our experience. If it appear to be evil, we know it is not from God, hence not true, and need not be accepted as a part of our experience. Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 234), "Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one's belief permits." That is, evil has no power, except as we clothe it with apparent authority by accepting its false claim. Understanding the unreality of evil, we may no longer accuse our brother of harming us. Rather do we look to our own thinking and seek to expose and cast out the lying belief which we have ignorantly or willfully accepted as true. We do not attempt to absolve ourselves from responsibility by condemning another person, by blaming material conditions, or by moving from one place to another. Rather do we joyously accept the opportunity to eliminate wrong thinking from our own consciousness, and to replace it with a spiritualized concept of existence.

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