Article February 18, 1950 Issue

VERIFYING OUR CALLING

MAX DUNAWAY

How grateful we are for the blessings of Christian Science! Health and happiness, freedom from sin and fear and care, harmony in our daily round of duties—all these draw from us deep and abounding gratitude. In humble, tender reverence we give thanks to God and with overflowing hearts rejoice that we are Christian Scientists.

But this alone is not enough. Mary Baker Eddy, to whose spiritually receptive consciousness came the revelation of Christian Science, has set before us this challenging reminder in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 3): "A Christian Scientist verifies his calling." Truly to verify our calling in day-by-day and moment-by-moment experience is to rise to greater heights than mere material comfort and well-being. It is to claim a blessing far beyond that of physical health and affluence, even the blessing of a life in which each hour meets the demands of divine Principle.

Sometimes this meeting of the demands of divine Principle may not appear as a blessing to struggling human sense, reluctant to leave its accustomed slothfulness. It quibbles petulantly at the self-renunciation and self-abnegation that must replace cherished erroneous beliefs and desires. It murmurs resentfully at the consuming Truth which comes to purge away the errors of human consciousness. It lingers a little longer in the spurious gratification of self-pity and self-justification. In brief, human sense resists being replaced by spiritual consciousness, but this process is inevitable if we are to experience continued healing and growth.

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