Article July 9, 1949 Issue

Direction, fulfillment, protection for alert and obedient student

ON PRACTICING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

RAYMOND MANSBRIDGE BROCK

Christian Science is simple and practical. It shows us how we can practice Jesus' teachings and solve all our problems. Its practice requires wholehearted obedience to and understanding of the First Commandment, the acceptance of God, good, and His creation—man and the universe—as the only reality. It also requires adherence to the Golden Rule of loving one's fellow man as oneself. This means replacing the false concept, with its claims of sin, sickness, and discord, with the spiritual facts regarding the perfect man of God's creating.

To be obedient to the First Commandment we must love God so much that we reject from our thinking all that is ungodlike. This requires knowing God as Spirit and rejecting matter beliefs, knowing God as Love and rejecting hate, knowing Truth as reality and rejecting error as unreality. Actually man cannot help obeying God, Spirit, the all-powerful, ever-present, all-knowing Mind, for man is His image and likeness, His reflection. As one's thinking is brought into line with the truth of God's power and presence, one's human experience becomes more harmonious.

Faced with the suggestion of sickness, the Christian Scientist, who obeys the First Commandment to "have no other gods," affirms and maintains in consciousness the Biblical truth (Deut. 4:35), "The Lord he is God; there is none else beside him." He realizes that because man, God's image and likeness, reflects perfection he cannot be sick, and that true selfhood always expresses God. Discord of whatever kind has no history; it is in fact unreal because God is the only cause. Man, as the Scripture says, lives, moves, and has his being in God; so error of any sort cannot reach him. God is no respecter of persons; so the truth that makes free can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the time he has been acquainted with this Science.

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