Article February 18, 1967 Issue

On God's Side

MAYSIE GARRATT

Thoughtful citizens of the world are much concerned as they observe the animality and lawlessness which seem so rampant today. "What hope is there for the world of tomorrow?" they ask. Unwilling to accept such hopelessness for the present or such sad predictions for the future, students of Christian Science find comfort and assurance in the Bible and in the writings of Mrs. Eddy.

Mrs. Eddy frequently uses the analogy of the scale, or common balance, to illustrate a point. She writes: "Christian Scientists hold as a vital point that the beliefs of mortals tip the scale of being, morally and physically, either in the right or in the wrong direction. Therefore a Christian Scientist never mentally or audibly takes the side of sin, disease, or death. Others who take the side of error do it ignorantly or maliciously. The Christian Scientist voices the harmonious and eternal, and nothing else. He lays his whole weight of thought, tongue, and pen in the divine scale of being—for health and holiness."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 146;}

Earnestly desiring to follow such helpful instructions and to cast the weight of his thinking on the right side of the scale, the student strives continually to hold fast to the fundamental teachings of Science as based upon the first chapter of Genesis, in which is set forth the fact that God, Spirit, made all that was made and that He made man in His image and likeness. To strengthen his resolve to be on God's side, the Christian Scientist endeavors to obey the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."^{Ex. 20:3;} In other words, no weight is to be cast on the side of evil.