Article May 18, 1974 Issue

Gaining Innocence

RICHARD A. NENNEMAN

A small child may be blissfully unaware of the evil in the human world because he has been protected by his parents and his human environment. Therefore his innocent attitude is untested, and he may lose it as he grows up.

The student of Christian Science, on the other hand, progressively gains innocence as he grows into the spiritual understanding that evil has no real basis from which to promote itself. The individual who expresses a degree of spiritual innocence that he has earned may often appear to have the same basic simplicity about him that a child has.

There is only one Principle, and this Principle, or God, is good. Everything that stems from Principle, all the activity of the ideas of the one Mind, Principle, reflects the nature of God. In reality there is nothing going on outside this realm of Principle. So, rather than being a quality that belongs peculiarly to childhood, a knowledge of man's purity and innocence in their full spiritual significance is the basis of the spiritual strength with which we overcome whatever misrepresents the nature of God's perfect universe.

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