Article May 9, 1959 Issue

TRUE CONVERSATION

DEANE WHITTIER COLTON

Many Christian Scientists recognize the value of the Biblical comment that it is "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" (S. of Sol. 2:15). Because Christian Science is the way of Life and one's living is obviously one's mental standards externalized, the Christian Scientist scrupulously examines every thought to bring it into conformity with the Christ, Truth, God's divine ideal. He recognizes that regardless of how small or innocuous error may seem to be, it nevertheless is a fox which will slyly claim to destroy the fruition of his at-one-ment with divine Principle.

Thus he is ever aware of the constant suggestions projected through press, radio, and television, together with their objectives. He sees them for what they are—the unremitting, but vain, attempt of mortal mind to foist its lies of a material man and a material universe upon consciousness. The earnest Scientist refutes and destroys such suggestions by knowing that error has nothing to talk about or to talk to, since God, Truth, and His creation alone exist.

But is the Scientist as alert to other little foxes which may long have been an unchallenged part of everyday language? Does he separate between the true in conversation and the glib phrase of pseudo-significance which has no truth but which is accorded weight through mere repetition? Does he see how such apparently innocent words, unwittingly accepted in consciousness and repeated in daily conversation, extend their subtle influence to classify and claim him as one of a world of matter-conditioned mortals?

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