Article May 11, 1957 Issue

ON GRADUATING

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

MARY STIRLING THOMSON

Graduating seems to become a habit. We graduate from a lower grade to a higher, from grammar school to high school, from high school to college. And then what? Human life itself is an educational process in which we graduate from one stage to another when we are ready for this progress. In school we are used to expecting grades to approximate the effort we put into our work. In Christian Science anything that is to be of real value to us must of necessity be won through work and through study.

It is sometimes said of the young that they think. "The world's mine oyster." It is natural for youth to be easier for the Rood things that the world promises, but maturity brings the realization that the promises of materiality are false and sometimes fatal.

It may be a temptation, when we look at a glittering car or a gracious home, to think, "That's for me," and to go to work to "demonstrate" those material things through humanly mental methods. People who would never dream of grabbing something physically, sometimes transfer the procedure to the mental realm and think it is all right. If we are honest Christian Scientists, we can hardly indulge this type of thinking. In Christian Science we do not "demonstrate" material possessions. Our aim is to understand and demonstrate the Christ, Truth. When we do this, good comes naturally into our experience.

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