Editorial February 18, 1950 Issue

A CHANGE OF HEART

Helen Wood Bauman

Figuratively speaking, a change of heart implies a change from the mental state of hardheartedness to one of compliance with good. To the Christian Scientist it indicates an awakening from heartless materialism and self-interest to a truer sense of man's nature as Love's expression, the rousing of dormant affections to the active uses of goodness. It discloses the presence of Christ, God's ideal, ever at work in human thought, leading it to the recognition of man's existence in God as His spiritual son. Often it means the breaking down of blind, mortal convictions and the humble yielding to divine Mind's wisdom and will.

This yielding may entail the giving up of some cherished opinion or the admission that one's stand on a subject has been less than wise, as often occurs when true meekness is achieved and God's control is honestly sought. God's will is something to be proved, not lightly admitted. And it is demonstrated through Christian Science with exactness and certainty when personal desire and opinion are completely abandoned and the truth of divine Mind's oneness and allness is realized.

Paul was evidently urging his friends in Rome to put off willful human convictions through the demonstration of God's will when he wrote (Rom. 12:2), "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." His lesson is further clarified by his counsel to every one of them "not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." And he goes on to explain the bond of unity which all possess through Christ.

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