Article July 15, 1950 Issue

ON MAKING DECISIONS

BENTON S. WOOD

Few capacities are as important to the happiness and welfare of mankind as is the ability to make wise, sound decisions and hold to them. Many of the world's most tragic events are due to failure to rightly evaluate situations or neglect to take timely action. Some of its most glorious triumphs have come from the ability of individuals to grasp true wisdom and realize divine guidance. Christian Science, being a practical religion, universally applicable to human problems, has an answer to the perplexity of making decisions. As in every phase of its application, the solution in this case is satisfying and final, with simple basic propositions for the student to use.

In the first chapter of Genesis the statement is made, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Christian Science declares that mankind can accept unreservedly the conditions set forth in this positive statement and supports this stand with clear logic and scientific proof. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 259), "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration."

Here we have, succinctly stated, ideas foundational to the marvelous healing works for which Christian Science is now widely known. Mark well that the statements deal exclusively with God's wholly spiritual creation, which can be realized in individual experience as we utilize divinely supplied ideas and as we relegate to oblivion by positive mental excision the suggestions of material sense manifest as sin, disease, and death.

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