Article July 31, 1965 Issue

Where Do I Stand?

GEORGE F. WARNECKE

On page 268 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy quotes Martin Luther's famous dictum: "Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me God! Amen!"

In the lives of many of us there comes a time when we are forced to ask ourselves the question, "Where do I stand?" The answer can often be a turning point and a milestone in the individual's experience.

The spiritually unenlightened person may look strictly to material means to solve his problem, thus seeking surcease in the same realm and with the same materials that have seemingly produced the unsatisfactory situation. He will attempt to fashion or control his environment and shape its forces by human means, with his own hands, so to speak. In his eyes the outcome of his endeavors will depend on the utilization of his worldly wisdom, his human strength, his material resources, and his human determination in order to overcome the forces which have caused his difficulty. He pits himself against that which he thinks has produced his sense of crisis.

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