Editorial May 22, 1926 Issue

"Scientific certainty"

Duncan Sinclair

The Christian Scientist is never in doubt as to the fundamental truths which Christian Science has revealed to him; and, in consequence, he is thoroughly persuaded as to the effect of these truths in their correction of erroneous thinking. This certainty, this "scientific certainty," is constantly being evidenced in his work as a practitioner; for he approaches every problem full of faith in the power of Christ, Truth, to destroy all that is unlike itself. That this was the attitude of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is shown by these words of hers in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 496): "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being."

Any one who contemplates these words of Mrs. Eddy just quoted surely cannot fail to see how firmly grounded was her faith in the healing power of Truth. God had been revealed to her as the divine Principle of all reality, the source or cause of creation, the perfect Mind, who expresses Himself through the perfect spiritual idea, man; and this spiritual understanding she had time and again proved was able to destroy the errors of material sense, sin and disease. But how clear must have been her realization of the truths of being! How steadfastly must she have adhered to these truths in the face of the falsities of mortal mind!

If one studies Christ Jesus' life, he will find it to be characterized by unlimited loyalty to God, by unbounded faith in his understanding of God, and by a certainty that could not be shaken as to the power of that spiritual understanding, because it was scientific. Jesus, in consequence, never hesitated in his application of the truth when a case of sickness presented itself to him. Knowing as he did, with "scientific certainty," the allness of God and the power of the spiritual idea, he denied that sickness or sin had any reality—and the case was healed. And these healings of his were almost invariably instantaneous, proving how magnificently clear must have been his spiritual understanding.

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