Article June 17, 1950 Issue

THE NEED OF HOLDING OUR GAINS

HOWARD J. CHAMBERS

There is much truth in the old saying that "nothing succeeds like success." He who holds his gains and goes uninterruptedly forward from one achievement to another makes certain and rapid progress in any field of endeavor.

"Goodness attains the demonstration of Truth," writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 2). True goodness is spiritual, an attribute of God. We individualize or demonstrate this goodness in proportion to our fidelity to the law of God as taught in Christian Science. Goodness demonstrates power, freedom, protection, and ability. Goodness brings happiness, and through its cultivation of spiritual sense also brings a constantly clarifying consciousness of spiritual reality.

Mortal mind would try to retard or adulterate goodness, but the alert student of Christian Science will thwart mortal mind's effort. A generally accepted belief which claims to operate in nearly every activity of human life is that for every step of progress, every achievement of good, every improved physical condition, there must be a corresponding reaction. This belief has no origin in Principle and should be seen for what it is, a false, aggressive mental suggestion, which cannot endure. Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 252), "A knowledge of error and of its operations must precede that understanding of Truth which destroys error, until the entire mortal, material error finally disappears, and the eternal verity, man created by and of Spirit, is understood and recognized as the true likeness of his Maker."

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