Article October 6, 1956 Issue

"IN CHRISTLY PATHS APART"

HELEN M. GRIMES

One of the important steps in Christian Science healing is to separate the true selfhood of man from the belief or dream of material existence. As one makes this reparation and maintains the position that man is spiritual and perfect, he is indeed treading "in Christly paths apart" (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 382).

We read in II Corinthians (6: 17), "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord." Does this mean that we are to be separate from our loved ones? From our friends? From mankind? Indeed not. We must come out— separate ourselves mentally—from the belief of a material creation and all that this belief includes. Our Master, Christ Jesus, gave us this injunction (Matt. 6:24): "Ye cannot serve God and mammon"; so we must choose. If our choice be to serve God, then our spiritual progress is assured, because it is impossible for one to hold to a false material concept of creation while acknowledging and accepting the true idea of existence as spiritual, complete, and wholly good.

Each day brings added opportunities to choose the good, the real, and the eternal and to reject the evil, the false, and the temporal. We are separating the real from the unreal each time we reject mortal mind's suggestions of sickness, death, and limitation and accept divine Mind's truths of health, life, and abundance. It is through the rejection of evil and the acceptance of good that we leave the road of material thinking, with its pain, sickness, and sorrow, and enter the Christly path, wherein is found peace, health, happiness, and joy.

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