Article February 12, 1944 Issue

What We Gain and What We Lose

J. WOODRUFF SMITH

The individual's human experience appears to be one of constant gain or loss. Sometimes he discovers that he has apparently lost something desirable or needful; at others that he has gained something undesirable or unnecessary. Christian Science shows him how to reverse this condition.

In Hebrews we read, "He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second." Those who walk in the way of Christian Science find themselves losing the belief that evil is real, and gaining the understanding that reality belongs only to good. They begin to lose the false concept of mind in matter, and to gain the understanding that God is the only Mind, omni–present and omnipotent, and that man is the full manifestation of this Mind.

In these words does Mrs. Eddy point out the way (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 316): "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship."

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