Article May 13, 1950 Issue

"WHAT WE MOST NEED"

MARSHALL ORR

Do you think that some material condition must change before harmony can be experienced? does the inharmony seem to involve climate, elevation, human association, working conditions, or bodily disease? Experience shows that reason based on material premise is never capable of knowing or saying just what is needed to remedy a wrong situation. Christian Science shows that man is always at the point of perfection. Therefore, the human need is ever for a greater understanding of God and man and of the spiritual qualities which man reflects, such as obedience, gratitude, honesty, and love. These qualities, when entertained in consciousness, bring to light man's true identity and put to flight error of every description.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, has given to the world the means for meeting its needs. On page 4 she writes, "What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds." This admonition deals not with physical conditions, nor with what the five material senses seem to require, but with the spiritual ideas necessary to meet the human need, whatever its nature.

The statement just quoted from Science and Health includes certain obligations incumbent upon the individual or group before the light of spiritual understanding can illumine the way through prayer.

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