Article December 15, 1956 ISSUE

SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE

W. BURTON WEBSTER

Wise indeed is he who has come to have singleness of purpose, a purpose God-directed and God-sustained. Mary Baker Eddy indicates a high and holy purpose when she declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 45), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." It follows that in carrying out a spiritual purpose, one can suffer no harm, either physically or morally.

Christ Jesus expressed the idea of singleness of purpose in these words (Matt. 6:22, 24): "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. ... No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." It is good sense when we undertake a task, to do it with the whole heart. It is particularly necessary, since we have "enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death," to have no other prompting, no other expectation of reward, no other allegiance than that derived from or due to divine Mind, God.

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