Article September 3, 1955 Issue

PROVING MAN'S SPIRITUAL SONSHIP

SAM H. KAYE

In the spring of the year we see the evidence of nature's persistent effort all around us in the glorious beauty of blossoming flowers and budding trees. Gratitude for all this delight vastly increases one's ability to appreciate and understand beauty as a quality of God, Soul.

In Christian Science we learn that divine Mind is the source of all impulse, growth, and action. As idea, all creation reflects divine Mind, making cause and effect one in quality, each essential to the other, the one for impulse, the other for expression. Therefore, by reflection every idea of divine Mind contains within itself all of the qualities it requires for its complete unfoldment. In its unfoldment even the material plant fulfills its mission of blessing mankind by freely giving of its beauty, aroma, and color.

In the greatest sermon ever preached, Christ Jesus said (Matt. 6:28, 29), "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Laborious and painful motion is not required of the plant to achieve success, neither is it required of a person. Indeed, success comes from conscientious desire and a consecrated effort to express more Godlike qualities. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 230), "Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon the improvement of moments more than upon any other one thing."

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