Article September 7, 1940 Issue

True Education

[Written Especially for Young People]

HARRY E. DE LASAUX

SOME years ago a young man, eager to study journalism, entered a large university. However, he discovered that he was required to take a number of subjects which appeared to be of little value to him. He became discouraged, and for over two years lost interest in his studies and barely passed the examinations.

At that point he became actively interested in Christian Science, and learned to prepare his thought for each day by studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. His college work began to take on new value and fresh interest. As he learned the great truth of spiritual being, that God is Mind, the one infinite divine intelligence, expressing in man pure spiritual ideas, his thought took on insporation and activity. The fetters of belief in materialmindedness, with the related errors of limited ability, began to fall away, and spiritual reality, "a new heaven and a new earth," spoken of in Revelation, unfolded to his thought. With this enlarged spiritual understanding he was able to grasp the meaning of things more spontaneously and intuitively, and in his written reports and essays there appeared an intelligent freshness of viewpoint which his professors recognized and encouraged. As a result of this spiritualization of thought, he became successful in his studies and obtained much better grades.

At the end of his course of study a comprehensive examination based upon the whole four years' work was required. This was considered a difficult test. The young man, armed with his understanding of God as infinite intelligence and the knowledge that divine wisdom is ever practical and present, faced the three-hour examination with confidence and freedom of thought. The result was an excellent grade in the examination. Later, one of the professors remarked that what had been achieved was most unusual.

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