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Achieving the Most Good

From the November 1971 issue of The Christian Science Journal


There is in the human mind an attitude that perhaps does most to obstruct the deeper study a Christian Scientist needs to devote to his religion if he is to develop more of its healing potential for himself and society. It is the attitude that one can know a truth even though that truth is not animating his conduct.

This is the attitude Christ Jesus exposed when "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Luke 10:25; The lawyer was well versed in the letter of the Scriptures. He may even have been reading them that very morning. So Jesus asked him, "What is written in the law? How readest thou?" The lawyer answered that one should love God supremely and his neighbor as himself. Jesus approved, but he also had to teach the lesson of deeper study by reminding the lawyer, "This do, and thou shalt live."

Mrs. Eddy says, "The error of the ages is preaching without practice."Science and Health, p. 241; She also writes: "It is Christian Science to do right, and nothing short of right-doing has any claim to the name. To talk the right and live the wrong is foolish deceit, doing one's self the most harm." p. 448;

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