Article June 26, 1920 Issue

"Radical reliance"

ALDEN F. POTTER

IT is axiomatic that the statements of exact science are invariable, unyielding to opposition, and incapable of being twisted by personal manipulation. No matter what may be said to the contrary, Christian Science is pure and exact Science. It is capable of but one construction, but one result. It is a matter of daily proof that in the practice of genuine Christian Science, thinking is done constantly and eternally in but one way—the way that heals. In no other way can this Science be practiced, because of the fact that its premise is pure harmony, and the result thereof is a like product. In the presence of this scientific, conscious activity, whose Principle is God, nothing but harmonious truth exists as reality.

Every Christian Scientist knows that to justify his thinking he must be conscious that it heals. On no other basis has any individual a real right to think, and certainly every Christian Scientist desires to measure the rectitude and accuracy of his thinking by its power to heal. Scientific thought knows for a certainty that, as Mrs. Eddy has stated in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 71), "evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense."

Between that consciousness of Life that is certain of ever present healing and is aware of its power to be expressed forever, and that sense that is ignorant of Principle and its fixed, eternal harmony, a great gulf exists. Nothing can ever unite or mingle these opposites; neither can ever know that the other exists. Between them there is no compromise; between them no peace can ever be patched up nor any alliance formed.

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