SINCE our branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, and our church activities represent the aggregate of individual thinking, that which affects or influences the individual church member affects or influences his branch church. Thus, demonstration of a full and harmonious membership, of abundant supply, and of well-attended and fruitful lectures comes through the spiritualization of consciousness of each individual member.
But too often, when discordant conditions arise, one forgets that he experiences the false only when he accepts it as true, and he tends to focus blame on some person or circumstance outside himself, overlooking the fact that no person or circumstance, no mortal law—in fact, no evil in any form —can touch the one who keeps active guard over his thoughts. Allowing himself to entertain false suggestions instead of rejecting them, he identifies himself and his fellow members as mortals instead of God's ideas, and he is apt to find himself and his concept of church fulfilling what error would have him believe.
The ability to think rightly is a God given power, and nothing can deprive us of this heritage. Because God is the only Mind, the only Mind of man, there is no other mind to influence or control. Acknowledging and realizing this spiritual fact enables us to protect ourselves and our church from the aggressive mental suggestions that would try to find response in us.
