Article May 11, 1957 Issue

"A NOBLER OUTLOOK"

NOEL D. BRYAN-JONES

From ancient times it has been a practice to post a lookout or watcher at strategic points on land and sea to give warning of enemy forces or of other dangers. The Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus, after giving his immediate disciples a lesson on alertness, proclaimed (Mark 13:37). "What I say unto you I say unto all. Watch." The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, considered this instruction to be of such importance that she caused it to be printed on the front cover of the Christian Science Sentinel.

An important point for the student of Christian Science to determine is the place of his watching, the situation of his spiritual lookout. It is obvious that in practice, both spiritually and humanly, the situation of the reliable watcher must be from the highest available point, as illustrated by the fact that on board ship this post has always been high up on a mast, the crow's nest, and on shore, the highest place overlooking the sea or the land.

From what vantage point, then, is the Christian Scientist bidden to watch? Surely from the highest standpoint of spiritual observation. The Bible tells us that man, who is the image and likeness of God, lives in God, moves in God, and has his being in God. Material sense, which has a false, mistaken concept of man, would have us believe, that man is a mortal, separated from God, and that we must look here or there to find him. But the truth of man as stated in the Scriptures and revealed more clearly in Christian Science is that he is the spiritual expression of or witness to all that God is; he is at one with God and His glorious universe of spiritual ideas.

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