Article November 19, 1949 Issue

ATTAINING THE TRUE SENSE OF BEING

ELSIE MORGAN

What is my origin? What is the purpose of my being, and what is my destiny? Who has not asked himself similar questions? Perhaps because we are acutely aware that mortal existence is unsatisfactory and unsatisfying, beset by nameless fears concerning health, family, business, and the future, such questions obtrude upon thought, but may often be thrust aside unanswered. Yet it is instinctive in mankind to seek the truth. Deep within themselves many are convinced that if lasting individual and world salvation is to be attained, the answers to these questions must be found.

Countless instances have occurred, especially during war, of men's unsought, sudden awareness of the truth of being. In moments of extremity they have in a measure realized God's allness and the presence of a divine power and light that set aside material so-called law with its decrees of imminent disaster and revealed with unforgettable certainty the saving law of God. At such times, on land, on sea, and in the air, forced by fear and danger to awaken to intuitive reality, men and women have heard and heeded the voice that whispered, "Be not afraid! I AM!" and have emerged free and safe. Thus has the light dawned upon many a consciousness hitherto self-shuttered within the spurious security of mortal existence and unaware of the liberating truth revealed by Christian Science that man is one with his creator, inseparable from His omnipotence and omnipresence and, therefore, unassailable by evil in any form.

Jesus of Nazareth, the superb Exemplar of the Science of being, declared (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." And later he said (John 14:6), "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." For all who seek to be free, whether from ill-health, sin, or worry, these words of the Master's are truly significant and the way he indicated is worthy of investigation.

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