Article October 12, 1918 Issue

Christian Science, being Science, being the demonstration...

The Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science, being Science, being the demonstration of Principle, naturally and inevitably pursues its way in the demonstration and exposition of Principle, quite regardless of opinion—for there can be no opinion in Science—or of all apparent evidence of any presence or condition out of accord with Principle. A score of expert accountants may reckon up a nation's accounts and their final reckoning may be indorsed by each one of them, may be presented as correct by the treasury and passed by the national legislature, but, unless it is really in accord with the rules of mathematics, such a reckoning has no real existence. There is only one correct answer to the most intricate, as to the simplest mathematical problem, and mathematics knows nothing about any other answer, no matter what authority may be quoted in support of it.

And so it is with the Science of being. "If it is true," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 427 of Science and Health, "that man lives, this fact can never change in Science to the opposite belief that man dies." If it is true that God is all-power, then it cannot be true that there is another power besides God. If it be true that God is all-presence, and if it be true that God is all-wise, then it can never be true that there is any other presence or any other wisdom but God. If there is material evidence to the contrary, so much the worse for the evidence. If the score of expert accountants backed by all the treasury officials and indorsed by the legislature declare that a wrong account is right, then so much the worse for the accountants and the officials and legislators. The account they present has no existence, and the sooner the accountants, the officials, and the legislators admit the fact and set about bringing their accounts into accord with the rule of mathematics, the better.

Now, no one would think of declaring, no matter what the evidence, that the rule of mathematics was wrong. Though a whole nation believed that twice two was five, such a consensus of opinion could not weigh for a moment with the man who knew that it was four. He might find the erroneous statement in every book he opened. He might come across its distorting influence in every reckoning that was made by those around him. It might have the support of the law and the indorsement of learning, but still it would have no existence in fact, and the moment those who held this wrong view of the matter consented to be instructed by the truth, then, immediately, would they begin to get all their problems right.

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