Article March 9, 1957 Issue

TRUE HUMILITY UNFOLDS MAN'S GOD-GIVEN DOMINION

HELEN H. SPANGLER

True humility is letting God be All-in-all to us; through humility, ability and greatness bow to omnipotence, which is steadfast, unmoved by threats, cruelty, persecution, and injustice. Mary Baker Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 194): "Remember that a temple but foreshadows the idea of God, the 'house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,' while a silent, grand man or woman, healing sickness and destroying sin, builds that which reaches heaven. Only those men and women gain greatness who gain themselves in a complete subordination of self."

The desire to express a right sense of humility and yet gain my God-given dominion led me to consecrated study of the "Daily Prayer," which Mrs. Eddy gives in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. VIII, Sect. 4). It reads: "'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!"

I saw that only as divine Truth, Life, and Love are established in me and "rule out of me all sin," can God's kingdom come, or be unfolded in my consciousness. And I realized that before I could attain the fullness of the kingdom of heaven, I must see everyone in his true selfhood as God's perfect idea, dwelling in harmony, peace, and perfection. I cannot have heavenly harmony within my consciousness if I accept evil as real or think of it as ever having touched the consciousness of man.

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