Editorial April 7, 1956 Issue

THE ESSENTIAL TALENT

Robert Ellis Key

A good workman equipped with efficient tools will make use of them. He will know how to handle them with skill and use each one correctly. He keeps them bright, sharp, and shining. He never permits rust or misuse to blunt their edges.

The conscientious student of Christian Science is like the good workman. His mental outlook is clean, orderly, and bright. He is glad, grateful, and Godlike. His motto is semper paratus—always ready. His working equipment is the truth contained in his textbooks, the Bible, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and her other published writings. He knows that the truths contained in these books must be utilized. If his books lie unused in a cupboard, what good can they do him? The truth they contain must be lived, loved, pondered, and made practical.

Christ Jesus emphasized the necessity of making use of the truths he expounded, and he sometimes illustrated this need by means of a parable. The Master's healing works were of such an outstanding character that many at that time believed the kingdom of God would immediately appear solely through his own proof of its presence. In order perhaps to correct this mistaken concept, he related the parable of the talents. He told of a man who before he journeyed into a far country delivered a sum of money to each of his servants. We read in the Bible (Matt. 25:15), "Unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability."

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