Editorial August 27, 1955 Issue

AM I DOING MY BEST?

Harold Molter

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 9), "The twentieth century in the ebb and flow of thought will challenge the thinkers, speakers, and workers to do their best." Are Christian Scientists, the followers of Jesus, accepting this challenge daily and thus fulfilling their duty both to themselves and to their fellow men?

How can we do our best unless we know what the best is? To do our best is to let our every thought and every deed grow out of daily communion with God—with divine Mind. It is to be willing to bring every thought into obedience to God's law. Jesus gives us the basis for doing our best in his commandments to love God supremely and to love our neighbor as ourselves. If we truly love as Jesus did, we express love in daily deeds based on the recognition of God as Spirit and of man and the universe as consisting of perfect, eternal, spiritual ideas.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy points to the need of our practicing mental anatomy, or the dissection of thoughts, as an indispensable requirement for the healing of the sick. And, indeed, dissection of thoughts, or self-examination and self-knowledge, are important factors in aiding us to choose the best and to do our best in all avenues of human endeavor. Spiritual anatomy requires us to examine every thought which presents itself to us regarding ourselves and others.

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