Article June 11, 1904 Issue

Telling the Truth

CHARLES I. OHRENSTEIN.

Perhaps no question is more common in the experience of a Christian Science practitioner than that which opposes the denial of the reality of disease on the part of those suffering from it. "How can I deny being sick, when I am sick?" we are asked, and this is usually followed by the remark, "Why, I should feel that I was not telling the truth if I did so."

It must be evident that a denial of sickness under such circumstances,—a denial which is believed to be untrue, —can be of little or no value. Mrs. Eddy says, "The sick are not healed merely by declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing there is none" (Science and Health, p. 447). It is important, therefore, that sickness should be denied understandingly, with a conviction of the truth of the denial, — knowing that there is in reality none, as our textbook teaches. For, as a man "thinketh in his heart [in his innermost consciousness], so is he."

Those who are striving to apply Christian Science as a remedial agency for themselves and others, are believers in the teachings of the Bible, and should therefore be ready to claim their true birthright; i.e., that they are the sons and daughters of God, made in the image and likeness of the infinite, perfect, and "altogether lovely" Being, — God, — hence, they are, not will be or ought to be, well.

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