Article March 10, 1951 Issue

"THEY SHALL BE ALL TAUGHT OF GOD"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

VIVIENNE ALLEN

Learning is an inspiring and a joyous experience and is generally so regarded. However, the university student may find two thieves which would, if permitted, rob him of his full satisfaction in a light endeavor. One is a sense of confusion and doubt when academic subjects seem to conflict with what he has been taught of Christian Science; the other, a belief of laboriousness or inadequacy. Both suggestions need to be overcome if he is to gain the full fruitage of his labors.

No assertion of the physical or the social sciences regarding man and the universe, their origin or destiny, need disturb us if we remember that mortal mind's theories pertain entirely to its own dream world. They have no connection with the reality of being; whereas the truths of Christian Science, being based on the Bible, are practical and provable in every situation. Because of its causelessness and unreality, mortal mind seeks to give itself a history and a future and to relate itself to man and the universe. But this it can never do. "Entirely separate from the belief and dream of material living, is the Life divine, revealing spiritual understanding and the consciousness of man's dominion over the whole earth" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 14).

Spiritual understanding enables us to comprehend the ideas of God, which are spiritual. Even some physical scientists now admit that there is no such thing as substance matter. But here physical science stops short. It does not replace matter with Mind, for it can have no knowledge or conception of infinite Mind—that Mind which is at the same time infinite Love. It remained for Mrs. Eddy, a spiritually-minded woman, to reveal the truth of God and man which is alone able to achieve our redemption from destruction and death.

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