THE world to-day talks much of "inferiority complexes." For each one who is weary of his own material wilderness there is great comfort in Mrs. Eddy's statement on page 13 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." Every one! The Christian Scientist accepts this statement, and tries to prove it by knowing that self —not God—creates any seeming sense of inferiority. He looks away from the false arguments of lack of education, self-distrust, timidity, financial failure, friendlessness, or social inequality; he watches to lay aside unwise human effort and toilsome struggle, so that the glory of God may be manifested, even as it was revealed in the case of the impotent man at Bethesda, who, since he was not a part of the crowd around the pool elbowing to be first to reach the troubled waters, was ready for the call of Christ Jesus. One such instance of the fulfillment of the promise of impartiality proves that there is equal opportunity for every one who is willing to accept good, in spite of what mortals may claim.
Every Christian Scientist has often proved for himself that it is just the willingness to let go of the earthly load which makes it possible for the impartiality of divine Love to appear. Willingness implies more than a negative desire to give up trouble; it includes a positive readiness to accept something better. In every case which Jesus healed, some one had turned to him with assurance that the desired cleansing would follow. The leper said, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." The centurion insisted that Jesus should "but say in a word," and his servant would be healed. The blind man cried, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me." Their faith brought the answer to their prayer.
With these examples before us, who wants to cling fearfully to an "inferiority complex"? Does the claim of past failures, of past temptations listened to and not rejected, try to cast its shadow on the present? Even if there seems to have been much wrong thinking in the past, a whole-hearted turning from the lie to-day makes possible a confident claim to impartial love now. When Paul's conversion came, he straightway began preaching the Christ, Truth. He wasted no time in condemning his past Pharisaism. The prodigal son had a sense of great rest and peace as he at last turned toward his father's house.
