Editorial February 9, 1963 Issue

Destroying Pride

Helen Wood Bauman

In her "Miscellaneous Writings," Mary Baker Eddy makes this perceptive comment (p. 358): "Human pride is human weakness. Self-knowledge, humility, and love are divine strength." Who would not abandon human weakness for divine strength? Humility may seem difficult to attain in taking this step, but it becomes spontaneous when it is understood through Christian Science.

This Science explains true humility—the state of thought soonest reached by divine grace—as a perpetual quality of the real man, the man made in God's likeness. For God's man, the true identity of each one of us, has nothing and is nothing of himself but is dependent upon his Maker for his all.

Christ Jesus could maintain a state of humility because he understood and rejoiced in man's relation to God as His perfect image. Jesus once said (John 5:19,20): "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth."

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