Article October 7, 1950 Issue

GOING THROUGH SAMARIA

GRACE M. CHURCH

How often have we cried out in pain, grief, or bewildered patience: Why do I have to go through this? Why must I overcome this disease, this sense of separation from a loved one, or this unhappy relationship within the home or place of business?

Christian Science provides a thought-provoking answer to this question in its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. On page 39 we read, "We must have trials and self-denials, as well as joys and victories, until all error is destroyed." Truth destroys error by correcting it, and in this instance the truth concerning oneself denies the reality of any I that seems to be going through an inharmonious situation or condition. For the Bible teaches us that God is good and the only cause; that He is the creator of man in His own image and likeness. The Bible also reveals God as Love, Spirit, Soul, and points to the infinite One as the only intelligence, or divine Mind, of the universe including man, as the Lawgiver, or absolute Principle, of all that really exists. Christian Science shows us how to make these teachings practical in our daily lives by following the example of Christ Jesus, who brought to light man's real identity as the harmonious manifestation of God's perfect and eternal being.

So-called trials, then, present grand opportunities to let Christian Science teach us how to deny the sense of a self morbidly devoted to its own personal interests and to rightfully claim our real identity as children of God. We have authority for doing just this in the Scriptural passage in the first epistle of John (3:1), "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."

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