Article February 7, 1953 Issue

"BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE"

GEORGE EDWARD HARRIS, JR.

"A Christian Scientist can decide how he will have conditions." This statement by a Christian Science practitioner startled a man who for years had been trying to eliminate from his pursuits all will power, all outlining. But immediately the Bible parallel reassured him (Hebr. 4:16): "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace." In paraphrase this might read, Let us therefore come boldly unto the omnipotence of Love.

Just as the practitioner was not sanctioning either human will or rigid planning, Paul was not counseling us to be impudent. Both, however, were striving to rouse us to our duty, as well as our right, of insisting upon perfection for ourselves and for others.

Indeed, we should be on guard against the abuse of human will power, against any ill-considered act. "Human will belongs to the so-called material senses, and its use is to be condemned," Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 144). She goes on to say: "Willing the sick to recover is not the metaphysical practice of Christian Science, but is sheer animal magnetism. Human willpower may infringe the rights of man. It produces evil continually, and is not a factor in the realism of being."

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