All the knowledge of all the human beings in the world is but a speck in the total of all there is to know. One's own knowledge is but an atom in that speck. When we learn this, we gain the meekness we need to view the infinite and to learn from it.

Of all that can be known in any phase of living nothing really matters but the truth. What is not true may seem to matter a great deal, but because it is untrue, it must eventually prove itself so, and be replaced. Christian Science teaches that only what is of God, infinite Mind, is true. Meekness enables us to acknowledge God and receive into our lives the good that is His.

Christ Jesus was the greatest example of meekness the world has ever known. He could have claimed superiority over all other people, but superiority was not his concern. What he was seeking was the awakening of mankind to their true status as children, or ideas, of God. He showed us that we learn through love. This is because infinite Mind is Love and manifests itself in man. True knowing reflects Love and awakens others to the wonderful qualities of their true being. So as the speck of truth one knows humanly includes a recognition and a demonstration of what is spiritually true of others, it expands. And it becomes more practical.

However, Jesus did not walk about this earth saying every human being is sweet and lovely. He understood good to be real and evil unreal. He showed us, by example, that the way to greater understanding and demonstration of divine Life is not only through recognizing the good in people but through honest and fearless denunciation of evil. He whipped the money changers out of the temple. He referred to Judas as a devil. And in speaking to the chief priests and scribes of the stone which the builders rejected—the Christ, Truth—he said, "On whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."  ^{Luke 20:17, 18;}

One who thinks of his own knowledge as greater than it is, in relation to the infinite, is either deceiving himself or is deliberately choosing to live in and enjoy that which Truth will destroy. Because the infinite Mind includes all reality, the more one rejects a personal mind and acknowledges the divine, the more he can enjoy the things of Mind and the less he needs the temporal things that seem so important to the mortal self.

Mind and matter are opposites, and we can know the things of Mind as we see through the illusions of important matter—important material possessions, dependencies, relationships, position, status, pleasures, pains—find them valueless and replace them. But as we recognize the truth of the infinite and glory in it, we can feel Mind's glory reflected in our own consciousness of being. We can feel the love of the Father-Mother Mind, and we can have a life of ever-appearing loveliness and goodness. The appearing necessarily includes the awakening in others of the consciousness of their true worth as God's children.

We have the constant help of Mind to recognize and demonstrate true values. This help has already resulted in our having the Bible, wherein we find a record of the Christ, Truth, and what it does as it makes its way into receptive human consciousness. It has also resulted in the discovery and founding by Mary Baker Eddy of Christian Science. Her writings explain divine Truth and the steps we can take to understand and demonstrate it. Her church provides us opportunities to take part in its healing activity.

Our meek acceptance of the help Mind has given us enables us to receive inspiration and understanding from Mind. And with this understanding we can distinguish what is true from what is false and demonstrate reality. We can heal whatever comes to us in our experience that is not of the divine Principle, Love—not real.

Approaching our problems scientifically, we begin not with our own knowledge but with Principle. Principle, Love, Mind, is All. Our limited view of being and of ourselves yields to the divine view. Pride in what we know gives way to the truth of what is. Any pain, discord, uncertainty, fear, hate, that attempts to be part of our consciousness is ruled out by Truth. Errors of belief in other minds, other powers, personal wills, and so forth show themselves false. If giving them up is hard, divine Love forgives us, strengthens us, and frees us. The healing comes.

In her remarkable article entitled "The New Birth," Mrs. Eddy writes: "In mortal and material man, goodness seems in embryo. By suffering for sin, and the gradual fading out of the mortal and material sense of man, thought is developed into an infant Christianity."

She continues in the following paragraph: "But, as one grows into the manhood or womanhood of Christianity, one finds so much lacking, and so very much requisite to become wholly Christlike, that one saith: The Principle of Christianity is infinite: it is indeed God; and this infinite Principle hath infinite claims on man, and these claims are divine, not human; and man's ability to meet them is from God; for, being His likeness and image, man must reflect the full dominion of Spirit—even its supremacy over sin, sickness, and death."  ^{Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 15, 16.}

Carl J. Welz