Article September 29, 1945 Issue

The Right Focus

CHARLES V. WINN

Pictures taken on a trip not only bring to mind the experiences which we have had, but also enable us to share with others the loveliness which we have seen. Everyone knows that to secure the right kind of pictures, right focus is essential. If the camera is not properly adjusted or focused, we necessarily get a distorted or perverted picture of that which, in true form, is a scene of great beauty.

On our journey along life's highway, the human mind would have us believe that many ugly pictures are constantly presented to our thought. If we are not alert, we may take in these false mental pictures and allow them to become a part of our human consciousness. And what we take in mentally may reappear as discord and inharmony.

Christian Science is the Science of divine Love, and, when understood, it gives us a spiritual dominion and scientific mastery whereby we admit into our thinking only the true, the right, the healthy, and the good, and rigidly exclude the false, the wrong, the evil, and the diseased. In a basic statement of that which is divinely real, the Scriptures declare (John 1:3), "All things were made by him [God]; and without him [God] was not any thing made that was made." Moffatt gives this helpful translation: "Through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him." We also learn in the first epistle of John (4:8) that "God is love."

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