Article July 13, 1957 Issue

WRONG OR RIGHT

MARGARET CASE PAULUS

While listening to the radio, the writer heard a popular song entitled "Gotta Be This or That." As she listened, she thought how true it is that a thing is either wrong or right. She saw how this truth could be applied by a student of Christian Science in taking an active stand for the right. Once the illuminating light of real being, of man's coexistence with God, has been revealed to an individual, he has no choice but to take hold of the truth firmly and abide with it constantly if he is to progress spiritually.

The Bible is replete with lessons on the necessity of a strong, steadfast reliance on Truth, God. Indeed, the First Commandment itself covers the entire subject (Ex. 20: 3): "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." To obey this commandment, one must realize that his true self, the only real man, is individual consciousness and reflects God, the All-in-all. This true self is the spiritual representative of the one Spirit, the one Soul, the one Mind, which is God. When one refuses to be tempted by material means or methods and consistently reflects God, he cannot manifest the errors of vacillation, neutrality, indifference, apathy.

Perhaps Jesus' most quoted teaching about the impracticality of maintaining a halfway position in the fight for righteousness is found in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 6:24): "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

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