Article September 14, 1940 Issue

"The word of God is quick, and powerful"

J. SIMMONS DAVIS

Thinking rightly is the means of successful living; it glows brighter for the using, and does not waste away. In Proverbs it is written of a man, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Truly this is so, and one must constantly watch in order that he may refuse to think evil thoughts and hold to the good. The Christian Science student should ask himself what he is thinking in his heart. Is it that which he reads, hears, or sees concerning error; or does he entertain only the pure, spiritual thoughts which come to him from God, as a light in his consciousness, as that of which he is certain through spiritual conviction? Surely it is the latter which is held to in the heart of the sincere student of Christian Science.

Our beloved Leader, Mary Eddy, entertained such spiritual thoughts in her discovering and founding of Christian Science. The spiritual ideas which flooded her consciousness brought the revelation of the Christ, Truth, which impelled and enabled her to demonstrate the new-found facts about man as God's image and likeness. The world did not begin to accept her discovery until with consecrated persistence she proved true her revelation by healing the sick. This healing work due to her teaching goes on today and will continue.

In her writings Mrs. Eddy has so clearly set forth the rules of divine Principle that those who rightly apply them demonstrate the Christ-healing. In obedience to one of the admonitions given in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 393), "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good," and with implicit reliance upon the truth of "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468), one student had been faithfully striving to replace belief in the reality of matter with the understanding that reality is spiritual. For many years he had been a heavy smoker, and on several occasions had tried by the use of the human will to stop the unpleasant cigarette habit, but without any lasting success. Some two years after commencing the study of Christian Science he earnestly endeavored to overcome the false desire by the application of his understanding of the rules of Christian Science given in the textbook.

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