Article May 2, 1953 Issue

WHY ARE YOU STUDYING?

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

BEATRICE E. LEE

To human sense one must gain, through varying methods of education, the knowledge necessary for carrying on his business or pursuing his life purpose. Some young people find difficulty in remembering facts, in segregating and classifying them so that they may be stated concisely and accurately in the classroom or in examination papers. Consecrated study and application of Christian Science solves this problem.

A student in one of our large universities, finding to his dismay that he was failing to receive satisfactory grades in his classes, asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. Christian Scientists often find the answer to problems in a statement of spiritual truth given in the writings of their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. In this instance the student was asked to turn to this statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 536): "The divine understanding reigns, is all, and there is no other consciousness."

What a reassuring fact! The all-knowing Mind, the all-wise God, infinite intelligence, governs the universe. All that can ever be known is already known to Mind; and man, the manifestation of Mind, reflects what God knows. God is ever conscious of His own completeness. He includes all and is ever expressing His ideas through man, His image and likeness. Therefore nothing exists outside of true consciousness, and individual man recognizes his completeness as God's reflection. If fear and confusion seem to deprive us of the ability to express what we have learned through earnest study, let us identify ourselves more clearly as the understanding expression of divine Mind. Then we shall find that fear and confusion disappear from our human experience.

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