Article March 29, 1941 Issue

Mental Gardens

[Written Especially for Young People]

HELEN HIXON

A garden offers many helpful lessons to the student of Christian Science. The steps to be taken in cultivating a garden are similar to the work one needs to do in cultivation a mental garden of health, happiness, usefulness, and peace.

If one is to have a flower or vegetable garden, the first thing to do is carefully to prepare the ground. Weeds, stones, or debris of any kind must be cleared away. Then the soil must be turned over and stirred, so that the roots may take firm hold and provide nourishment for the plant.

In tending a mental garden, we must follow much the same process. Right thoughts are the plants we are to cultivate in this garden; and to make place for them we must clear away the debris of wrong thinking, manifested as fear, doubt, indolence, apathy, hatred, envy, impurity. As in the material, so in the mental or spiritual garden, this work must be thorough and honest; no stones of indifference, stubbornness, or selfishness, no clutter of fear or sin, must be allowed to remain.

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