Editorial July 5, 1913 Issue

"ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF WITH HIM"

Archibald McLellan

If one were given a problem in mathematics to solve, he would first endeavor to understand it thoroughly, and then apply to its solution the rule by which such a problem can be worked out. So doing, he is putting himself in line to obtain the desired result, the correct solution. The same order of procedure must be followed in our work in Christian Science. If we try to apply the rule of Christian Science treatment, while still holding to "the error which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter, and good is in evil" (Science and Health, p. 204), we are simply nullifying our efforts, and will ultimately find ourselves as far from a solution of the problem as we would be in trying to add by the rule of substraction.

A marked difference, however, between a problem in Christian Science and one in mathematics is that in the latter there may be several bases from which it can be worked out, but in Christian Science there is only one. Every problem to be worked out in Christian Science springs from the false belief which for centuries past has held mankind in bondage, namely, that there is life, truth, intelligence, and substance in matter; whereas the truth is, that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468). This is the truth before which error's fetters must yield, and only as this truth is understood can the rule of Christian Science healing be applied, whether the seeming difficulty be one of sickness, sin, poverty, or any other form of evil.

The great duty of Christian Scientists is so to acquaint themselves with God as to be able to see at once the unreality of all that is unlike Him, to see evil, whatever the guise it assumes that it may the more subtly delude us, only as a false claim which can be and must be destroyed by Truth. There are not two creations, one spiritual and the other material, nor are there in reality two men, one in the image and likeness of God and the other mortal.

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