Article March 12, 1955 Issue

AS GOD WORKS

PAULINE B. RADER

Christian Science teaches that the real man exists now at the standpoint of perfection, and from that vantage point he sees all things as they actually exist. We need to gain this true vision. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 316), "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship," This turning from sin and losing sight of mortal selfhood is a most important step in progress.

When a shepherd wishes to save a sheep that has fallen into a rock crevice or a pit he uses the crook of his staff to lift the animal. However, he cannot slip the crook under the sheep to lift it until the animal stops struggling. Therein lies a lesson. As long as one struggles with a problem, believing in its reality, he finds that he is not lifted out of it. The solution to the problem is never found within the problem itself. We need to realize that Truth discloses and unfolds itself. With scientific certainty it disposes of error without contending with it. The very nature of Truth precludes the existence of error.

Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 263). "When mortal man blends his thoughts of existence with the spiritual and works only as God works, he will no longer grope in the dark and cling to earth because he has not tasted heaven." To work as God works one must first accept and understand Jesus' statement John 5:19), "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." To look at things from the standpoint of the senses and to see matter or a sick, sinful mortal as real is obviously contrary to the true vision. God, who is Spirit, sees only spirituality.

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