Article June 9, 1923 Issue

The Immortality of Truth

C. LILIAS RAMSAY

IN Revelation we read this striking injunction: "Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." In several places in his letters to the early Christian churches, Paul urges on his followers that they "stand fast," and be steadfast. In II Timothy he writes, "That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." This necessity for standing firm our Leader exemplified in her own life, and impresses on Christian Scientists in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings. In the former she explains that the word translated "belief" or "believe," so often recurring in the New Testament, where it is emphasized as being the first step towards salvation, has more the meaning of "trust, constancy, firmness" (Science and Health, p. 488). Then the question may arise: How are we to attain this firmness, this holding fast, this keeping of that good thing committed to us by the Holy Ghost, — that is, these beautiful spiritual ideas which have come to us in Christian Science; which have illumined for us some dark place; which have enabled us to rise above some sense of evil; but which, perhaps, for a time we may seem to have lost sight of, and do not know how to regain?

Turning again to our textbook, our guide in this mental journey, we find on page 483: "After the author's sacred discovery, she affixed the name 'Science' to Christianity, the name 'error' to corporeal sense, and the name 'substance' to Mind." Now that which is substance is God, Spirit, Mind. As understood in Christian Science, it is indestructible, permanent, and ever present. Every idea of Mind must partake of the essential nature of Mind, its origin; therefore it also must be truly substantial, indestructible, permanent, ever present. Hence, every impartation of Truth, every spiritual idea that man reflects, every thought of good that has dispelled some belief of evil, is truly substantial, because it is a permanent and ever present reality in divine Mind. Nothing can ever destroy or obliterate it; and it is available now and always. What mankind needs to do is to recognize the divine origin of every true idea, to every spiritual quality revealing the true nature of man, which has at any time taken the place of some opposing error of belief. Then it is found that these spiritual ideas are immortal, and that man can never be separated from them.

The good which Christian have dreamed of and longed for, and which some have viewed as possible of attainment in, perhaps, a far-off uncertain future, is here for us all, if we will only look for it in the right direction. Assuredly, the prophetic words of Robert Browning are being fulfilled to-day in Christian Science:—

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