Article January 9, 1954 Issue

THE SOLUTION

CHARLES HENRY SCHWAB, II

Today there seem to be many problems facing the world. From a human standpoint, to try to find a solution, or to outline how they may or should be solved, sometimes only adds to the apparent confusion. Christian Science teaches, however, that, even though we may not always know the human solution, we can be grateful that we do know that the spiritual ideas necessary to solve any and all problems emanate from the one Mind. God—the Principle and source of all true being. The natural procedure, therefore, is to turn to this ever-available Principle as the mathematician turns to the principle of mathematics. As the principle of mathematics never changes, is never wrong, and never knows of the problem to which it is being applied, so the Principle of all being never changes, is never wrong, and does not know of the problem to which it is applied. For example, if a child puts two red apples together with two more red apples, in the principle of mathematics they add up to four, although the principle knows nothing of the red apples or the problem.

A student of Christian Science felt that he had received unjust treatment in a business transaction and voiced this to several of his associates. That same afternoon he lost his voice and developed a severe case of laryngitis. The next morning, upon going to his office. he could talk only in a whisper; but even in this condition he continued telling his associates how unjustly he had been treated the day before. He later went to a Christian Science Reading Room. Opening a book on one of the tables, he came upon this statement from Mary Baker Eddy's Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 19): "The Christian Scientist cherishes no resentment; he knows that that would harm him more than all the malice of his foes. Brethren, even as Jesus forgave, forgive thou. I say it with joy,—no person can commit an offense against me that I cannot forgive. Meekness is the armor of a Christian, his shield and his buckler."

Studying these words carefully, he realized that he must wipe out all resentment in his own thought in order to be healed. When he had done this he was immediately and completely freed from the difficulty —much to the amazement of his business associates when he returned to his office healed.

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