Article September 3, 1955 Issue

HOW DOES CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HELP THE COLLEGE STUDENT?

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

HELENA GRONLUND ALLEN

Recently a college student who was failing his college courses went to a practitioner for help. The practitioner assured him that failure was unknown to the man of God's creating and that it could therefore be ruled out of the student's experience.

The student was then asked about his study and work habits, and his reply indicated that he had succumbed to the mesmeric suggestions of procrastination, cramming, and handing in late, incomplete, and carelessly done work. Yet he expected through the help of the practitioner to achieve high grades.

After explaining to the student that Christian Science was not a mechanism or mental process by which one may escape from trouble, nor was it a false facade behind which error could hide, the practitioner drew his attention to a statement of Mary Baker Eddy's in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It reads (p. 19), "Even Christ cannot reconcile Truth to error, for Truth and error are irreconcilable." Error must be eradicated before real manhood appears. It was further pointed out that his demonstration was to reflect the attributes of Mind, God, to such an extent that the error would be detected and destroyed. Laziness, indifference, and apathy were errors to be proved powerless. And accuracy, diligence, order, promptness, intelligence, and perfection were attributes of God to be proved active and present on the basis that man reflects Mind and all that it includes. Then good grades would surely follow.

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