Editorial August 7, 1954 Issue

ENTERTAINING THE TRUTH

Robert Ellis Key

A Christian Scientist soon discovers that he must discriminate regarding the type of entertainment he patronizes. The best entertainment of all is the entertainment of Truth, for this entertainment is health-giving and satisfying. An analysis of one's thoughts during a normal day may disclose the sad fact that one is spending a great deal of time in unprofitable entertainment. For instance, one may be entertaining doubt concerning the outcome of a problem. The belief that the problem ever formed a part of one's experience must have started by one's entertaining in thought something unlike God, or good. And one can at once turn out such unwelcome thoughts of fear, doubt, lack, sorrow, or resentment.

If we gave an entertainment for our friends we would see to it that uncongenial visitors were not admitted to our home. We are master in our own household. We would not entertain those whose only purpose is to do us harm or cause confusion.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 392): "Stand porter at the door of thought. Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously." Here we have the secret for the harmonious control of mental and bodily conditions. What we admit determines what we are. In order to be a good porter, alert at the door of thought, we need mental discipline. The porter must be watchful, sober, and obedient. The house he guards is not his personal sense of a so-called mortal consciousness, but the God-given consciousness, perfect, spiritual, and eternal. The Apostle Paul wrote (I Cor. 3:16), "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Natural and primal is the consciousness which God has given us. He is the creator; His work is perfect; He has furnished us with every Godlike grace and spiritual quality. God does not withhold good from some and bestow it upon others. He is a God of justice, and all His children are precious in His sight. If, therefore, we seem to experience something evil, it must be because the door to consciousness has not been closely guarded against the entrance of an unwelcome guest.

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