Article May 8, 1978 ISSUE

Chipping away to discover the real man

LOUISE STARR KLEINSMITH

The sculptor Michelangelo said that when he looked at a block of marble he saw a form inside waiting to get out, and all he did was to chip away everything that was not a part of that form. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health, "We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought." Science and Health, p. 248;

Each of us wants a better life. It's natural to want a life filled with peace, joy, health, and harmony. But what is the model toward which we should be looking? Is it not man created in the image of God, the perfect child of a perfect heavenly Father?

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