Article March 30, 1946 Issue

Demonstration versus Prejudice

ELOISE PATTILLO HENDRICK

The individual with no prejudices to obscure or distort his thinking has an undeniable advantage: he is freer to perceive and manifest goodness and joy than he would otherwise be. By his willingness to relinquish the effete modes of mortal belief and to adopt Christianly scientific thinking, he is realizing proportionately the following promise of the Scriptures (II Cor. 5:17): "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

This newness which the Christ imparts, is the realization of man's oneness with God, divine Mind—oneness with immortality, perfection, completeness, and with the infinity of joy and opportunity. One dictionary gives as an antonym for prejudice the word "demonstration." A Christian Scientist, then, readily grasps the significance of proving that one is governed by the purity and justice of divine Mind rather than by the evil and unloveliness of the so-called carnal mind. No longer to be involved in the mediocrity, the monotony, and the repetition of error, but to be awake to man's present ownership of eternal riches, is the experience of the truly receptive, progressive thinker.

"Ignorance," it has been said, "is less remote from the truth than prejudice." With what perseverance and watchfulness, then, should one eject from his consciousness every vestige of prejudice! Some of the seeds planted by prejudice—cruelty, suspicion, intolerance, self-righteousness—unless checked, may grow into persistent weeds, and wise are those individuals who root out such tendencies at their early appearance. Christian Science supplies the certain remedy because it enables its students to discern the ephemeral nature of finite, mortal views and to behold the integrity of God and all that He has made. "The one Mind, God, contains no mortal opinions. All that is real is included in this immortal Mind," declares Mary Baker Eddy on page 399 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

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