Article December 31, 1955 Issue

OUR INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

PAUL K. WAVRO

One of the most frequently voiced suggestions we hear as we go about our daily duties is that someone is experiencing a problem because of what another is doing. In fact, many times we ourselves are tempted to accept this same subtle suggestion of the carnal mind. Material sense testimony would have us believe that everything would be perfectly all right if someone else would do something or stop doing what he is doing at the moment. Such a false belief, entertained and nurtured in thought, produces the very circumstances that we wish to avoid.

To many it may seem that they have reached an impasse, but the student of Christian Science has learned how to win his freedom from such false suggestions. On page 184 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Belief produces the results of belief, and the penalties it affixes last so long as the belief and are inseparable from it." In this one short statement we are told the cause of our trouble and how to eliminate it from experience.

Since the penalty is inseparable from the belief, it would follow that the elimination of the false belief would also eliminate the penalty, for being inseparable, the penalty would be cast out with the belief. If we are to eliminate limitation seemingly caused by what others are doing, then we must maintain in consciousness a correct concept of man and his activity. In so doing we shall be following the Master's method as outlined by Mrs. Eddy when she writes (ibid., pp. 476, 477), "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals."

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