Editorial October 6, 1906 Issue

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BELIEF

John B. Willis

Christian people are much given to the free expression of their religious beliefs, and so far as these statements are demonstrated to be true, or so far as they express the logical sequence of an unquestioned truth, even if not thus demonstrated, they have an ethical and educational value.

There is no danger of the too frequent declaration of important truths, or of our knowing them too well, but there is danger of our falling into the habit of making absolute statements of religious belief when in fact the "interiors" of our human sense have not as yet been brought into subjection to the spiritual truth embodied in such statements,—a habit which is the result of self-deception and which is one of the most ill-begetting outgrowths of unthinking dishonesty.

Christian Science is contributing spiritual stimulus to all the world to-day in its emphasis of the unworthiness of human content with those expressions of belief which are mere verbal endorsements of asserted Christian truth, and in its insistence upon the possibility and need of so actualizing faith in consciousness that it shall become dynamic, be manifest in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

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