Article April 4, 1964 Issue

A High School Student Writes

What to Do with Doubt

CLOTILDE CARPER

Doubt of the healing power of the Christ, Truth, is a great problem to many teen-agers who may be trying to understand Christian Science.

It is a common belief that as we grow into adolescence we lack enthusiasm, doubt many of the things we have learned, and become subject to disobedience and laziness. But Mrs. Eddy says on page 236 of Science and Health, "While age is halting between two opinions or battling with false beliefs, youth makes easy and rapid strides towards Truth." We are this progressive youth.

Feelings of doubt about the effectiveness of God's care deprive us of good. We must replace doubt with the conviction that God is All and that He "created man in his own image" (Gen. 1:27). Man is God's perfect reflection now and forever; and as we understand this, we can demonstrate some measure of the perfection of God, good.

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