The world is always in need of honest men and women. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 453): "Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help."
The saying which we often hear, "He is too honest for his own good," when held to the light of spiritual understanding, becomes absurd: for how can a good quality be harmful, if every good quality comes from God? Believing that expression indicates the belief that something can be gained through dishonesty.
The practice of honesty gives one the only true power there is, spiritual power. What a satisfied sense one has when he knows he is manifesting a quality of God, good, and, knowing that God is all-power. witnesses that spiritual power in operation in his daily life! The very presence of such a one in a community blesses all with whom he is associated, for his wholesome example often causes others to seek out and avail themselves of that understanding of God and practical use of His law which they see is forever blessing and guiding him.
