Article December 3, 1955 Issue

LET US EXAMINE OURSELVES

HELEN H. HIXON

Self-correction is distasteful to the human mind. It is easier to blame someone or something other than ourselves than it is to correct our own faults which cause our failures and frustrations. And yet the only way to freedom, health, and progress is to search our own motives and acts and bring them into conformity with the law of God, the law of good.

In his wonderful discourse known as the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus gave definite rules for our guidance in self examination and self-correction. It is ourselves we are to examine and correct, not our brother. "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Matt. 7:1), Jesus said, and he emphasized that we must purify ourselves, trust God supremely, forgive as we would be forgiven, and first cast error out of our own thinking before we can understand and help our brother. Throughout the Bible are many other admonitions regarding self-searching, self-knowledge, and self-correction.

Christian Science teaches us how to follow Scriptural admonitions by showing us the true nature of God and man. In the Gospel of John we are told (4:24), "God is a Spirit." Mary Baker Eddy uses the word "Spirit" throughout her writings as one of seven synonyms for God, the others being Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Mind, Principle.

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