Editorial September 19, 1942 Issue

Unlimited Help Always at Hand

Alfred Pittman

Christian Scientists understand that decisive improvement in human conditions is always a present possibility, and they see just what is required for proof of this fact on any occasion. It is that men should awaken more fully to the quality of intelligence which, in reality, is theirs. For their intelligence actually is not limited, as it seems, but infinite and perfect. Their mind is the divine Mind, or God, whose nature it is to exclude all ignorance, incompetence, disease, want, aggression, enmity—whatever is unlike itself—and to behold and demonstrate the perfection of being.

It has been found continually that as men realize through Science that God is their Mind, their difficulties and distresses disappear. Their personal limitations are thus overcome, and what has seemed to be lack or insufficiency of needful things outside themselves is at the same time corrected. And it is obvious in Science that similar results are available by the same means in all the affairs of mankind, including the present war.

How such changes can come about through mental or spiritual awakening is made wholly plain in Christian Science. One's human self is not one's real selfhood, but a limited and erroneous concept of what one actually is. For each individual, it is the mistaken view that he has of himself—real selfhood in every instance being the likeness of God, the perfect expression of intelligence, forever complete and satisfied, forever one with all good. So also the useful material things in one's experience are not what they seem to be, but only one's limited concepts of good, which really is omnipresent, infinite, and inseparable from oneself. In other words, the limitation which one sees, whether in himself, in others, or in any aspect of the world about him, is not real but only a false sense of being which he has accepted. It follows that as his consciousness is clarified and uplifted by the recognition of Truth, as it takes on more of the character of divine intelligence, his view of himself, of others, and of the ever-present abundance of good are correspondingly improved.

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