Article September 18, 1976 Issue

Determining a right purpose

What's Your Motive?

HELEN R. CONROYD

What difference does a motive make? As long as what you do is good or pleasing or profitable for your family or friends, your business or church, isn't that enough?

Our every effort to do what we feel is right, to do our best, is a step in the right direction. But to do something because we feel people expect it of us, even when our objective is to be kind or helpful, really isn't enough.

Why? Because a wrong motive involves human will. It indicates an effort to please persons, not God. And often the person one may be trying to please most is oneself. Mrs. Eddy clearly states, "A wrong motive involves defeat." Science and Health, p. 446;

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