Editorial March 24, 1928 Issue

True Witnesses and False

Albert F. Gilmore

IN recognition of the constant presentments of the so-called physical senses as to life and its conditions, the author of the book of Hebrews speaks of the great "cloud of witnesses" with which mortals are encompassed. He admonishes his readers to lay aside "every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us" and patiently to work out the salvation for which each is destined. And he holds up Christ Jesus as the great Exemplar, who showed the way to salvation which all may traverse.

The false witnesses which so completely encompass human experience are always and invariably the testimony of the physical senses. And since these senses are engendered in the belief that matter has both life and intelligence, they are false—utterly unreliable. Whatever is based in falsity is in itself false. And we know from proved experience that Life and intelligence are spiritual, wholly independent of matter. Then the testimony of these witnesses, these false witnesses, is to be denied, repudiated, on every occasion. Without this denial, we accept as true that which is untrue; and as a result, false witnesses are accorded a status to which they are in no wise entitled.

In a court of law, if the testimony of a false witness is not repudiated, but is accepted as true, the verdict, based upon falsity, is not sound, and justice is thwarted. Likewise, when mortals give credence to the testimony of false witnesses, that is, to physical sense, the conclusions arrived at are not sound; for man is misrepresented. A counterfeit is accepted as real, and spiritual truth is thwarted; that is, it becomes hidden under the weight of the false testimony. Under this regimen sickness, sin, and death are given the status of realities, which mortals accept as unescapable. But the dawn of understanding, the advent of Christ, Truth, in consciousness, denies and repudiates the false witnesses and establishes the spiritual facts. Moreover, when mortals are ready to relinquish their belief in matter as substance, capable of affording pleasure as well as of causing pain, the Christ is always present to establish the truth about man and his relationship with God.

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