Article July 26, 1900 Issue

Gaining the Victory through Truth

BY A. E. B.

Sometimes when people see a Christian Scientist suffering with a trouble which does not seem to yield to treatment at once, they say, if he would only use a certain drug he might be relieved. They think it is perfectly absurd because he refuses it and persists in having Christian Science treatment, for to their sense he is doing nothing.

We read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 67, "Belief is all that ever enables a drug to cure mortal ailments," and the Christian Scientist knows that the inert drug has no intelligence, but that all that could make it seem to help him would be his faith in it. All his life he has been educated to believe that drugs can heal, and to look to them for relief instead of to God, when he is sick. Now he has begun to gain a little understanding of Truth, and is trying to have more faith in Mind than in matter, more faith in Intelligence than in non-intelligence, more faith in God than in man. Then what does it matter if it should take a little longer to get relief? After the battle is over the consciousness of having won the victory brings a sense of peace and happiness of which the looker-on cannot have the slightest conception.

While the observer sees nothing but the physical manifestation, the Christian Scientist feels that he has fought the good fight and kept the faith, and he is filled with a great joy because he has been faithful to his God. He has gone a step higher. As Science and Health tells us on page 408, "Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger;" and as his faith in God grows stronger and he loses his faith in drugs, the healing will be done more quickly and he will be conscious of the peace that passeth all understanding as he journeys on from sense to Soul.

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