Editorial February 27, 1960 Issue

FINDING OURSELVES

Ralph E. Wagers

On my first trip to a friend's cabin in the north woods I was greeted with a sign on which were these words: "I come here to find myself. It is so easy to get lost in the world." It is rather an old story, people making serious, and often unsuccessful, efforts to find themselves. Not that they are actually lost; they are merely not sure of their direction or their destination. No doubt many are praying for a better understanding of life's grand purpose with assurance that sometime and in some way their prayers will be answered.

Among such people are Christian Scientists, who are proving that their prayers are answered. The Scientist is at least glimpsing a completely new sense of himself and the universe in which he lives, a spiritual sense. He is beginning to see that man, the man he really is, is not the sinning mortal he is represented as being, but is the beloved child of God, with whom man has a continuing, an unending, relationship.

And Christian Scientists are finding this spiritual concept of man confirmed in the Bible. For instance, in the first book of the Bible it is stated (Gen. 1:26), "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Man's nature, derived from God, Spirit, must be Godlike, spiritual.

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