Article June 3, 1944 Issue

"You can't go wrong!"

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

GERTRUDE S. MC CALMONT

"You can't go wrong!" From her place on a fast-moving train, a student of Christian Science saw these words flung out in bold type on the wall of a billboard. The effect was dynamic. Instantly all indecision vanished, sagging sense became enlivened, doubt gave place to surety, and presently there were words of a song on her lips.

She now settled down to draw certain conclusions from this sudden transformation of thought. She realized that a false sense of responsibility had beclouded reason. The mechanism of human thought had thrust itself into the picture, limiting the righteous admission of the ever-presence of Mind, active and able in every emergency to evidence itself.

Could God go wrong? No. Therefore, neither could His image! She mentally looked into her mirror, remembering a passage in that notable book by Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 516). where she says. "As the reflection of yourself appears in the mirror, so you, being spiritual, are the reflection of God." Since she knew God to be the source of all action, and man to be His reflection, she could claim perfect action for herself. Because God is infinite divine Mind, her decisions could reflect only divine intelligence. Thus did the word "image" take on a deeper significance in her thought, especially when she recalled Jesus' words, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."

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