Article December 15, 1986 Issue

"Such as I have"

What I can do to help mankind seems so insignificant. Can it really make a difference?

Frederick H. Brightman

Haven't we all thought about doing something so significant that it would make a pronounced difference to the world scene—making a sizable donation to a worthy cause, perhaps, or a scientific breakthrough, or performing some heroic act.

Though probably not many of us will contribute in such dramatic ways, we can help to tip the balance toward good by expressing God in our daily life. It's not the magnitude of the act that counts but the act itself. Honesty applies as much to a dime as to a dollar. And we all have something to give right where we are: we can bring help and healing through Christianly scientific love for our fellowman.

Christ Jesus did his healing work on this basis. His love was expressed in a persistent recognition that man is spiritual, the result of God's creating, not a sinning or sick mortal. Exploring the basis of Jesus' healing works, Mrs. Eddy explains in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."^{Science and Health, pp. 476—477.}

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