Article December 9, 1944 Issue

Priority

THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS

During the course of the war the word "priority" has appeared with great frequency in print and in general conversation. Certain supplies are designated "priority one," "priority two," and so forth, implying the degree of urgency with which various goods are required for the war effort. If an item falls into the first category, then its manufacture and transport take absolute precedence over everything else. In other words, it is rated a product of the greatest importance to the general effort.

These human terms and activities have their parallel in Christian Science and its practical application to daily affairs. Our first and all-out effort should be to gain an understanding of God, the source of all right ideas. Correct thinking must be based on these right ideas. From this basis, all else follows: the way from darkness to light, from discord to an ever-growing realization of spiritual harmony. Students of Christian Science are increasingly grateful that this exact, unerring Science has been given to them, but until they are willing to accept the full implications of this inspired teaching, progress will be slow.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has set forth clearly its primary factors in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and embellished these factors in such a variety of ways as will fit every human need. On page 467 she propounds the question, "What are the demands of the Science of Soul?" and answers it thus: "The first demand of this Science is, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.' This me is Spirit;" and later in the same reply she states, "Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter."

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