Article May 5, 1951 Issue

"THE JOY OF PATHS UNTROD"

MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

Twofold is the promise of Christian Science as applied to human experience, for it includes both the preventive and the curative art. We accept only one when we gratefully practice the curative, but neglect the preventive art.

We most effectively avail ourselves of this preventive art when we maintain a constant consciousness of our relation to God. The only safety, indeed the state which is so blessed that there is in consciousness nothing to be protected from, is at-one-ment with God. This is the way of absolute Christian Science and comes to humans only with faithful, diligent, daily study and hourly guarding and correcting of thought.

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 296), "Either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusions regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense and self." It would be intelligent for us to choose the method by which we make our greatest progress Spiritward, for that would take us unresistingly, hence painlessly, along the route of Science. When thought is alert enough to detect the errors which would lead us into discord, and obedience is faithful enough to eradicate them immediately, we are practicing the preventive art.

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