Article December 13, 1947 Issue

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MOTHER

HELEN GRAY PHILIPS

The mother who is a Christian Scientist is blessed beyond measure, for this Science imparts to her a spiritual understanding of the truth of being with which to meet the responsibilities of motherhood and make it a happy and fruitful experience. Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 236), "A mother is the strongest educator, either for or against crime."

To be "the strongest educator" for good in a child's life is a solemn charge and demands, as does every demonstration in Christian Science, the realization and proof within oneself of the truth one would see evidenced. Human character is developed spiritually as one learns that, because God is the only source and creator, He is our divine Mother as well as Father. Everything which God creates reflects and expresses Him, and the qualities which characterize the divine motherhood are therefore reflected by His children. To be a good mother one must first learn something of what it means to be an obedient child of God, to be His image and likeness.

Learning to yield our human will to the divine, we find that the wisdom bestowed by Mind is always adequate for every situation, and that neither we nor those over whom we have a brief stewardship are ever without the unerring control and direction of Truth. It is by ever striving to let our true spiritual nature as children of God be manifest that we become living witnesses to the divine motherhood. As we realize the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, the divine Mother, we are empowered to express the poise of unchanging Principle, the tenderness and compassion of Love, the orderly activity of Life.

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