Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-05-23
Improving Our
Environment

TESUS said duke 17:2D, "The
kingdom Of God is within you"
- Therefore, harmony, satisfaction,
contentment, and peace are present
for individual realization at all
times. :.
Mary Baker Eddy writes Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip.
lures, p. 1917, "Our proportionate
admission of the claims of good or of
evil determines the harmony of our
existence,-our health, our longevity.
and our Christianity" Thus it is
evident that what we admit to be
true has marked effect upon our
daily experience. ..
Spiritual understanding is the
only effective remedy for erroneous
beliefs, since il reveals Mind to be
the one true basis for happiness and
harmony. The best assurance for
maintaining desirable environment
is consciousness filled with good
ness, love, iustice-a consciousness
imbued with the conviction that "all
things work together for good to
them that love God" (RomanS 8:28).
The consciousness of the allneSs-
the omnipresence-of divine Love
affords an effective defense against
all manner of erroneous suggestion.
Christ Jesus said John 1872, Elm
my Fathers house are many man
sions." Man, as the idea of God, lives
and moves in Mind. the infinite di-
vine consciousness. wherein are only
harmony and goodness. Our true
selfhood is ever aware Of kindness,
compassion, peace, health, perfec-
ton. Gods image and likeness
knows no other state of being than
that Of perpetual harmony. Health,
harmony, happiness are attained by
spiritualizing individual human con-
seriousness. We should always re-
siSt the temptation to believe that
we are unable to accomplish a
worthy task because Of environment,
conditions, or unjust opposition. All
we need to do is to accept the fact
that, as the children of God, orr
nipotent, infinite Truth, we are en-
dowed with unlimited spiritual ca
pacity. Then we shall begin to ex-
press the wisdom and strength nec-
eSSary to achievement. Consistent
harmony and success can be won
only as we constantly reason from
the basis of Spirit.
AS we look at existence from the
spiritual point of view, we find joy,
beauty, and bliss made manifest in
our present experience. If we be-
lieve ourselves to be material and
separated from divine Principle, the
goal we desire seems remote and
even unattainable. But when we
grasp the fact, even family, that
true selfhood is at one with God,
Love, and has no faint of materiality
and mortality, the outlook brightens
and we find heaven at hand. He
who is conscious of the presence of
divine power sees as unreal any
sense of disagreeable or cramped
environment.
The song of the bird, the beauty
Of the flower, the sky, the sunlight,
all speak to the human heart of
peace. Why? Because they lift our
thought above the drab outlook Of
material sense to the contemplation
of these symbols of divine goodness.
Then, how much more should the
Science Of Christ. when understood
and applied, increase our peace and
Joy, and promote harmony and sue
cess in all worthy enterprisesl The
only possible way we have of ex-
periencing real and stable happiness
and peace is through spiritual think
ing, which recognizes the presence
and allness of inexhaustible Love.
There is but one really satisfying
way to improve our environment.
and that is by eliminating evil from
our thinking, by banishing envy.
fear, selfishness. and hatred. The
purified consciousness finds concord
and bliss where material sense sug-
gests discord and woe.
When we realize that God is ON
nipreSent, we know that evil cannot
prevent us from proving the perfec-
ton of man, Gods likeness. No claim
of evil can interfere with our do