Article May 5, 1917 Issue

Truth Practised

WINIFRED E. COWARD

Mrs. Eddy says: "Perfection is not expressed through imperfection. Spirit is not made manifest through matter, the antipode of Spirit" (Science and Health, p. 72). A consideration of the modus operandi in any and every case of true metaphysical healing will confirm this statement. So too if we trace the history of many of the discoveries in so-called physical science, we get an interesting parallel.

Every discovery in physical science overcomes in a degree a sense of limitation, and as a result the world records progress. An interesting and instructive fact to be gained from the histories of the world's greatest discoveries, is that the ideas which have led to the discoveries, have usually come from a very unexpected direction; they have dawned while the discoverer's thoughts were engaged upon quite different matters. For example, when Watt, watching a kettle of boiling water, perceived the idea of power as manifested through steam, he was not searching for a means to overcome the resistance of wind and waves; yet it was this very thing which made his discovery of such value to the world. Previously navigation had been hazardous, because the world's limited knowledge had made it dependent upon sails and wind for crossing the seas; but with Watt's discovery in quite a different field of thought the liberation came,—not through fighting and overcoming wind, but through the overcoming of ignorance of a so-called motive power which was already existent and at hand.

In a similar way we do not try in Christian Science healing to fight disease materially, but we seek in quite a different field for knowledge of a power which is ever present, at hand,—the knowledge of the truth about God and man. This knowledge makes us free from the limitations of belief in matter, with its effects of sin, disease, and death, so that they have no further power over us, and we are free to sail the seas of life untouched by the winds and waves of discord. One can well imagine that those who did not understand the newly found steam power would regard it with fear or superstition or prejudice, and would remain limited by their ignorance, subject to what they believed to be laws of winds and waves. Many of us were in a similar bondage until the light of spiritual understanding revealed the falsity of our fetters.

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