(This article, in slightly different wording, was
previously shown as penned by an early student of Christian Science, Irving C.
Tomlinson, CSD, and titled "The Secret." He was at one time a secretary to Mary
Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.)
I have learned a great secret.
I have learned how to demonstrate, I have learned
how to make Science a thing of life, not of words.
I am going to tell you what the secret is, and it is
wonderful.
It is this: Not to see or hear or repeat any kind of
imperfection.
It is seeing and hearing and repeating good only, at
all times and under all circumstances, and in spite of everything that appears
to the contrary.
I make this resolve every morning, when I first open
my eyes, and I renew it every hour of the day.
I see perfection in myself in my friends, in my
so-called enemy, in my affairs and in world affairs.
I take my radical stand for the perfection of God
and everything and for everything and everybody He has created. I look upon the
world with God's eyes and see it just as He sees it, and I refuse to see it in
any other way.
I stop a dozen times a day, and renew the resolve,
and make sure that I am not repeating error or giving way to criticism. I watch
my thoughts about people, the lame, the old, the unloved to sense that I pass
in the street, stray animals, I except nothing. I have taken my radical stand
for perfection and I will not, absolutely will not, relax this perfect
standard.
The result has been simply marvelous. Try it and you
will find that you forget your glasses; they will become unnecessary.
You will be seeing with God's eyes, His perfect
sight, and you will behold a perfect universe, the outward condition of your
inward thinking. To change the picture you must change the sight that produced
the picture.
