Article July 9, 1955 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE COLLEGE STUDENT

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

LORETTA GOLDEN

The Christian Scientist finds that the experience of attending college affords many opportunities to prove God's allness and to demonstrate man's endless capabilities as the child of the infinite, all-knowing Mind.

It is important that the student examine the motives predominant in his heart when he is preparing his college assignments. Too often the prevailing thought is one of false competition; each desires to be superior to the others. The Bible admonishes (Phil. 2:3), "Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory." A dictionary defines "strife" as "contention for superiority; rivalry; competition," and "vain-glory" is defined as "vanity over one's accomplishments."

In "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 70), "Each individual must fill his own niche in time and eternity." Thus there is no need for a feeling of willful competition, nor is there cause for jealousy over another's success. Each one of God's ideas has its own place, and no other idea can take this place. Each idea reflects intelligence, perfection, and wisdom. One knowing these truths can prove that no material circumstance or person can prevent him from filling his place or from being a success. The only strife consists in overcoming the belief that there is a mind apart from God. Each individual must eventually prove for himself that there is but one Mind and that he is the expression of that Mind. No one else can do this for him.

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