Before we try to Christianize the so-called heathen, we had better Christianize ourselves," was the illuminating answer once given by an experienced Christian Scientist to the writer, when he broached the subject of introducing Christian Science to a religiously darkened section of the world.
The need for letting the Christ improve our living was imperative then, and the same need is with us today. And because this need or requirement is still apparent we know that we are not demonstrating Christian Science as fully as we should. As students of this practical religion well may we question our personal need for Christianizing our every thought, for as we survey our own consciousness we shall perhaps behold unlovely thoughts, hidden from the world, an uncovering of which should awaken in us the desire to put on more of the Christ and follow Truth in thought and deed.
The purpose of this article is not to incline the reader to think of a neighbor or of his failings, but to urge each one to put a mirror in front of his own thinking in order to see the errors which he must cast out of himself. When thoughts of another's errors and his need for an increase of the Christ-spirit come to us, we are apt to find ourselves judging and criticizing the mote in our brother's eye, while not perceiving the beam in our own. How often do we understandingly drew the veil of scientific charity over the fault of another, by seeing it as un-real, instead of holding it up for ourselves and for others to gaze upon as a reality, thus condemning the one who seems to manifest the error? Oh, the blessing and of being, able to see and prove the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.71): "Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense"?
