Article July 9, 1904 Issue

Right Reasoning and Right Conclusions

C. D. REED.

When we hope to learn something without seriously disturbing our present beliefs, or when we refuse to investigate carefully because we think our meagre research has shown us the fallacy of the subject under consideration, then we are apt to stagnate, and there can be no progress.

Many people think they have unique objections to Christian Science, and even pity well-informed Christian Scientists, and wonder how they can believe such stuff. These critics really think that if said Christian Scientists could become informed, as are they, and could see the valid objections which they know exist, then they would drop Christian Science and return to the sensible views held by themselves. They seem actually to think that few, if any, of the Christian Scientists have had to meet and battle with these same objections which seem so real and unanswerable to them.

The fact is, that our paths to higher understanding are very similar, and all these apparent difficulties have seemed as real to many others, and have been met and mastered by them before they could enter into the right understanding of Christian Science. For years imaginary objections of this kind robbed me of the joys of this great truth, which, as I now know by actual demonstration, was far above my thought and conception. Reading, or hearing a few passages read, I would denounce them as errors, and, received in the old material conception of their meaning, they could well be so-called, but when spiritually understood, these very passages were found to be demonstrable truth. Reviewing my former honest objections that now seem but absurd, and which I hurled against some of the teachings of the Christian Science text-book, I am convinced that it is only a question of time until every honest seeker after truth will be lovingly guided into higher understanding.

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