Article July 9, 1966 Issue

Is Good Worth Working For?

Gordon V. Comer

It’s a belief rather well agreed upon that the better things in life are earned and must be worked for. In “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes this statement: “Christian Science is not an exception to the general rule, that there is no excellence without labor in a direct line.”Science and Health, p. 457;

No greater blessing can come to one than to gain a working and forever growing understanding of Christian Science. This Science is a free gift to all. But as with most gifts, some use must be made of them if they are to be of much value to the recipient. To utilize the great gift of Christian Science, one must put forth some effort. There is a price to be paid for its blessings. The work demanded is not laborious. All can do it. This work is largely comprised of obedience to divine Principle. There must be acceptance of and commitment to certain basic propositions. There must be some acceptance in one’s heart of the divine fact of the allness of God—of the supremacy and omnipotence of good. Divine Love is the creator of all. And “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”Gen, 1:31;

Obedience is a part of the price to be paid for the glorious gift of Christian Science. There must be a willingness to yield up ignorance of true being, a willingness to accept God as absolutely highest in authority and in power right here, right now, even in the midst of all that would attempt to disprove these facts.

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