"She (wisdom) shall promote thee"

Joyce Voysey

I recently re-read Erwin Canham’s A Christian Scientist’s Life.  Erwin Canham was a long-time Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.  The life of this great man seems to be a wonderful example of living the wisdom recommended in our book of Proverbs. Remarkable opportunities for advancement came to him as he and his mother expected God’s guidance in all his ways.  He lived the truths in these sentences from Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way.  Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action” (p. 454:18).

In view of all his achievements, his humility was outstanding, possibly because his mother “early dinned into me the eternal and practical truth caught in Paul’s Epistle to the Galations (6:3): “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”’ As far as I can see he lived his life according to the rules set out in Proverbs, and also found elsewhere in the Bible and in Mrs. Eddy’s writings.  One example is Proverbs verse 4 chapter 8: “Exalt her (wisdom), and she shall promote thee.”  His life was a vast series of promotions.