Article November 23, 1946 Issue

"Who told thee?"

DELLA M. WHITNEY

The joy, harmony, and real accomplishment of each day depend upon what we accept in our thinking as real. Quick, correct mental decisions bring fruitful hours. In the degree the truths are maintained in thought that God is Love, that He does not create anything unlike Himself, and that it is impossible for anything not of His creating to exist in His infinite goodness, sin, sickness, and lack are eliminated from our experience. These glorious facts are true regardless of the varying degrees in which we understand them.

The perfect universe, including man, remains intact throughout all time. "There was never a moment in which evil was real," declares Mary Baker Eddy in her book "No and Yes" (p. 24). Perfect results, therefore, cannot be obtained by working from the premise that both good and evil are real. Our success is sure as we learn to discriminate between the false evidence of material sense and the true idea of Life and man discerned through spiritual sense, and refuse to entertain thoughts which do not express God.

The writer at one time was experiencing a most trying difficulty. She had applied the truths of Christian Science very faithfully over a period of time, but had been unable to destroy the error and gain her freedom. One day this passage from the Bible was read (Matt. 6:22): "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." She pondered hour after hour upon this wonderful promise, praying for the understanding of how to apply it to meet her present need. Then it was realized that to keep one's eye single is to recognize no power or presence but God, to obey no law but His law, to cease listening to the voice of aggressive mortal sense suggesting error's presence and power, and to heed the voice of God. Then and there she decided to keep her eye single. As this decision was radically carried out, complete freedom was gained in just a few days.

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