Article June 24, 1944 Issue

Soul, Not Sense, Satisfies

LARUE M. MURRAY

In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," its author, Mary Baker Eddy, writes arrestingly (pp. 260, 261), "If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter." And she adds, a little farther on, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts."

Through the teachings of Christian Science we learn that there is no more urgent or profitable employment for anyone than that of replacing corporeal sense with spiritual understanding. And the time to enlist in such endeavor is today. A connoisseur of rare jewels spends just enough time on imitations to detect their counterfeit nature. No matter how glittering or attractive these synthetic stones may appear to the eye, he remains uninterested and unimpressed by them.

In the mental realm, we need to be equally wise and discriminating judges of thought. For mortal mind, with its customary deceitfulness, simulates the joy, affluence, and beauty of spiritual riches in a multitude of alluring guises. Nevertheless, the alert and consecrated student of Christian Science is not confused or confounded by such suggestions and appearances. Through the clear realization of his union with the infinite capacities of divine Mind, he is quick to discover and reject the fraudulent claims of matter and all its ramifications. He refutes and reverses the mesmeric suggestions of material sense and self, and holds fast to the Scriptural truth as voiced by the Psalmist. "The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Looking away from error to Truth, and claiming divine guidance and the operation of Principle in his affairs, the student strives for and finds spiritual treasure, joyous activity, harmonious relationships, and glad dominion.

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