Article September 27, 1947 Issue

SOME THOUGHTS ON SIMPLICITY

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

ROY L. HARVEY

A Soldier entered a Christian Science Welfare Room in an Army camp during the height of World War II and said to the Wartime Minister: "What is Christian Science? Tell me about it. And please, sir, make it simple, because I don't know anything about this religion."

A great sense of gratitude and humility filled the Wartime Minister's consciousness as he silently thanked God for again providing an opportunity for him to speak a word of healing and encouragement to another. In the course of the conversation which followed it was pointed out that God, who is Love, never sends sin, disease, or death to any of His ideas; that, in fact, the heavenly Father knows nothing of these errors. What God does not know, man cannot experience. God and man are indivisible; hence man expresses by reflection the characteristics of Mind. He can never be separated from his divine source.

God is Father-Mother. He tenderly and compassionately cares for all His children, never leaving them to the vagaries of chance or change, but always governing them harmoniously and keeping them under the shadow of His wings. It was further made plain to the young man that all of God's ideas always have existed and always will exist. Man, therefore, exists now and forever. Death is an enemy which is overcome by the understanding that immortality is man's natural state.

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