Editorial September 27, 1975 Issue

Things Man Can't Help

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Through the scientific understanding of God we can upturn the customary sense of man—as disputatious, fragile, finite—and find him to be divine Mind's perfect idea, the expression of God, not able to help being so.

Far from being unable to help being mortal, man can't help being exactly the opposite! Mary Baker Eddy, the spiritual luminary and Leader who has brought this to our attention in modern times, writes, "Man in the likeness of God as revealed in Science cannot help being immortal."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 81;} Christian Science teaches us how to identify ourselves with this man.

It's not unusual for many of us to excuse our misdemeanors by saying that we can't help jumping the ethical rails now and then. The fact is, though, that man as the idea of divine Principle, God, can't help conforming to divine law. Man never wanders off the track—never deviates from the consistent perfection—that divine Principle lays down for him. Indeed, man in Science simply can't help being flawless and pure. How can we test this? By thoroughly admitting it as true, then by building the moral and ethical lives we must.

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