Article October 12, 1957 Issue

"FITNESS FOR HOLINESS"

CLAIRE CHANCELLOR

Who that has found in Christian Science the truth of being has not yearned for a greater understanding of Truth, a more comprehensive grasp of the eternal facts of Life, of reality? Christian Science explains that this earnest desire is prayer and teaches that the answer to all righteous prayer is inevitable.

Indeed, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 127): "When a hungry heart petitions the divine Father-Mother God for bread, it is not given a stone, —but more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire; then will flow into it the 'river of His pleasure,' the tributary of divine Love, and great growth in Christian Science will follow,—even that joy which finds one's own in another's good."

Mrs. Eddy proved in her own experience and made clear through her interpretation of the Bible that God is not inscrutable, but knowable. Tennyson said, "Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet." Our Leader found that He answers the spiritual yearning of the human heart. Christ Jesus knew Him as a loving Father and turned to Him in every circumstance. And Jesus declared that everyone should do the works that he himself had done and even greater works as well.

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