A Student of Christian Science whose work brought her into contact with many children and young people was thinking and praying about the subject of standards. As she reflected upon the claim that manners, habits, and morals had been lowered in recent years, there came into her thought this question: "Has God taken down His own standard?"
This was a startling question. Then she remembered it as part of a passage from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. In its context it reads thus (p. 470): "The children of God have but one Mind. How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins? The standard of perfection was originally God and man. Has God taken down His own standard, and has man fallen?"
The student realized that if the suggestion that this "standard of perfection" could be lowered was presented to her consciousness, she must overcome the suggestion right there. She must establish in her own thinking the fact that good cannot lapse into evil because "God, the Mind of man, never sins."
