Article January 16, 1960 Issue

SELF-EXAMINATION

SIETSKE L. CURRY

Self-examination is the evaluation of thought. It is an opportunity to weigh one's thoughts in order to find out if the balance of thinking is on the side of good or of evil.

Self-examination looks critically and searchingly at motives. To be effective there must be a surrender of merely human motivations to the spiritual facts as taught in Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 8), "We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are."

Mrs. Eddy also says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 1), "All that is true is a sort of necessity, a portion of the primal reality of things." Christian Science teaches that our real selfhood is God's image and likeness. This image at all times expresses the ideas and qualities of God. These ideas and qualities and no others form man's being. Man coexisting with God can never be deprived of infinite good and ever-available wisdom.

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