Article November 2, 1912 Issue

NORMALITY

EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, JR.

IN Science and Health (p. III) Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Science of God and man is no more supernatural than is the science of numbers," and the world is rapidly awakening to this verity. For centuries the beliefs of disease and death have seemingly held the world in bondage, and all because they have been looked upon as more or less unavoidable and natural, instead of unnatural and abnormal, yea, as absolute unrealities. Instead of living in the glorious light of Truth and Love, mankind have attempted to investigate the shadows, until shadows seemed real and the true sense of being was apparently inverted. Indeed, for generations, if through a righteous prayer disease vanished into its native nothingness, the cry would arise that a miracle had been performed, when in fact it was no more miraculous than it is miraculous when we correct a discordant tone in music with a harmonious one.

One can imagine the discord which would reign if musicians ignored the laws which govern harmony, and is it any wonder that chaos has seemed to exist for centuries when the Science of Mind has been so misunderstood! But, thanks be to the light of Love which has melted away the mists, we have awakened to the glorious fact that because God is Love, health is normal and good the sole reality. It would be impossible to conceive of a number being separated from its basic law, and likewise it is quite as impossible to conceive of man being separated from divine Principle when man is an eternal expression of that Principle, of Truth, Life, and Love. It then dawns upon the awakened thought that death is a mere negation, possessing no principle and being naught except the supposititious opposite of the life which God sustains. Almost twenty centuries ago the apostle John saw this so plainly that he wrote, "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him," thus showing how impossible it would be for Love's reflection to be separated from the Life that is Love. John also said, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear," fully realizing that there is no place in God's infinity for fear, and that a knowledge of this forever eliminated the false belief. Again in this age the same wondrous thought has dawned, leading the author of Science and Health to write in the inspired pages of our text-book, "Love is the liberator" (p. 225).

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