Article May 22, 1954 Issue

LIVE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

HELEN KINGSBURY SAWYER

"Am I really living Christian Science?" Every student of Christian Science would do well to ask himself this question. Mary Baker Eddy says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160), "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science."

How can the student keep his thought in constant relation with those things that are true, and so live Christian Science? In her writings Mrs. Eddy urges her followers to observe constant watchfulness and prayer in order more fully to demonstrate Christian Science. Our Leader often uses the word constant to express the extent to which her students should keep truth uppermost in their thinking. The word constant comes from the Latin verb meaning to stand firm, and thus allows no deviation from steadfast adherence to right thinking.

In the parable of the sower and the seed Jesus recounted what happens to the good seed of Truth as it falls into the lives of various individuals. After describing the characteristics of those in whose consciousness the seed cannot take root and live, he spoke of the good soil, where the seed does germinate and bring forth fruit. But according to Jesus' parable, even in that consciousness where the seed of Truth does bring forth good fruit there is a great variation in the amount of fruit brought forth—"some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty" (Matt. 13:23).

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