Article July 15, 1950 Issue

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MARY RETTA TITUS

In human life there is a constant change of scene. Momentarily we are meeting others or turning the corner to some new experience. Even if there seems no outward change, our thoughts are constantly embracing a changing picture, sometimes glad and sometimes sad. Our daily experience is individual, determined by what we embrace in thought. Outward conditions are but the result of our thinking. This is proved when two individuals, working side by side under the same conditions and at the same type of work, find opposite experiences, one satisfaction and the other discontent.

Our happiness or unhappiness is determined by our mental concept of every moment. We label our experiences good or bad according to our belief. And what of those with whom we come in contact? We must watch that our view of them is a better one at each new meeting and that we do not cling to old, outmoded pictures of them. If we stamp those we know with a label of undesirable qualities and hold to these imperfect concepts, we allow ourselves no opportunity for improvement in our thinking about them and consequently in our relationships with them. Thus we may lose the joy of beholding their real individuality.

Christian Science is indeed the liberator from wrong beliefs habitually entertained. It has come into the world as a steadying power and brings clarity of purpose and directness of vision. It teaches that man is the son of God, eternally good, the forever perfect image and likeness of the perfect Father. We learn in Christian Science that man is divinely mental, not material. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 475): "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas."

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