Article October 11, 1941 Issue

Working Toward Our Ideal

HELEN HIXON

From earliest years most of us have been urged to hold in thought an ideal, and to try to bring it out in our lives. But it has not always been very clear just what this ideal is, nor how we should go about attaining it.

Christian Science answers the instinctive longing for something higher than the material world can offer. The study of this Science points to the ideal man of God's creating, the real, true, spiritual man, who is made in the image and likeness of God, and who, because he is image or reflection, is as perfect, whole, happy, active, and free as is his Father-Mother God. Then, having presented this highest ideal, Christian Science shows us how to work toward it and ultimately attain it.

Through the study of Christian Science we learn that the ideal man, reflecting God, already exists here and now, and is hidden from our view only by false material beliefs. Our need, then, if we would manifest this ideal, is to strive to lay aside false beliefs so that the real and true may appear.

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