Article November 12, 1949 Issue

SCIENTIFIC CANCELLATION OF DEBT

GLADYS ELLA GIBBS

Christian science offers the remedy for all the troubles of the human race, including debt. It provides the basis for correct thinking, which is inevitably followed by right human action. This Science of Life holds the solution to all the vexing problems of human existence. Patient and persistent study of its teachings through the various channels provided by its Discoverer, Mary Baker Eddy, and determination to apply and practice its rules, are the way out of the various forms of bondage with which mankind has bound itself.

The question of debt goes deeper than the matter of owing money for goods received or services rendered. Jesus recognized this when he taught his followers to pray (Matt. 6:12), "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Mrs. Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 17), interprets this petition in the Lord'sPrayer as, "And Love is reflected in love." This indicates the method by which all debt can be ruled out of human experience. "Love is reflected in love" is the divine law of reciprocity, and reciprocity in its spiritual sense leaves no room for unpaid debts.

A son once wrote to his mother that he intended to give up a promising sea career and to make a home with her because he felt indebted to her for all that she had done for him. Sensing the devotion that was prepared to make such a sacrifice and seeing the shadows of indebtedness which would restrict his activity, she assured him that she did not need him and that he was free at the present to follow the career he had chosen. All that she had done for him had been by the grace of God and had brought her great spiritual gain. As she saw it, the debt was already paid in his willingness to make the sacrifice, and he was to pursue his vocation free from all sense of indebtedness, except to continue to express his love in all wise ways.

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