Editorial October 15, 1927 Issue

Humanity's Helper

Duncan Sinclair

IF men only knew what Christian Science has in store for those who understand its teachings, they would turn to it with a great sense of gladness in their hearts. The world to many is not a joyous place. For have they not appeared to experience, perhaps through not a few years, more than a little of sorrow and suffering? So much so, indeed, has this been the case that there are those who have believed themselves driven to pronounce human existence an utter failure.

Now no one can shut his eyes to the trials which are the lot of mortals: sickness, sorrow,—suffering in many forms,—appear to be the lot of many. And no thoughtful person does; but there are different ways of looking upon the afflictions of mankind. Some there are who regard them as inevitable, as experiences which have always been incidental to human existence, and which will continue so long as men exist upon the earth. This class may strive to ameliorate human conditions, but it does not expect ever to be able to master them completely; and in it are to be found people in every walk in life. There is another class, however,—and it may be considered as in a category by itself,—which while it admits that mortals are, in belief, subject to many ills, refuses to admit the inevitability of these ills, or that mankind will not yet attain to complete mastery over them. Christian Scientists constitute this latter class.

And here we enter into the region of demonstrable revealed religion. Many centuries ago the Psalmist sang: "My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: ... he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand." The words are to be found in the one hundred and twenty-first psalm; and wonderful words they are, showing a faith in God little short of marvelous. We wonder at them now, even with the understanding of God which Christian Science has given us. Christian Science brings us face to face with the absolute truth about God—reveals, indeed, that truth to us, and by doing so presents God to us as the altogether reliable Helper of mankind. And what is this absolute truth? It is the fact of God's allness and perfection. Christian Science declares that God is All-in-all; that He is infinitely good; and that there is naught outside of Himself. Hence it affirms that evil is unreal; and by evil is meant all that in belief is the opposite of good, such as sorrow, suffering, disease, sin, and death. Whenever this is seen by anyone, and realized to some extent, he begins to get the victory over so-called evil: God becomes his Helper. And what a joyous time he should experience as he rejects the errors of false material sense through his understanding of Truth!

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