Article July 24, 1954 Issue

CONSISTENCY ESSENTIAL TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH

MADELEINE E. SCHOBL

"The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good," states Mary Baker Eddy on page 450 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Realizing that constant spiritual growth is necessary to the fulfillment of his high calling, every earnest Christian Scientist logically seeks the way to spiritual attainment.

Mrs. Eddy gives us a guide in another statement from Science and Health (p. 458): "The Christian Scientist wisely shapes his course, and is honest and consistent in following the leadings of divine Mind." Honest and consistent! Honesty is an obvious necessity, but let us ponder the meaning of the word consistency. A dictionary defines it in part as "harmony of conduct with profession." For constant spiritual growth, then, it is necessary for us constantly to harmonize our conduct with what we profess or acknowledge to be true.

This brings us to consideration of what we as Christian Scientists profess. Basic truths learned in Christian Science are that the one perfect, infinite God is Father-Mother, the only cause and creator, and that man is perfect because he is the effect—the image and likeness—of God. One of the truths which we probably profess most frequently, then, is that man is the perfect image and likeness of God.

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