Article January 5, 1929 Issue

Right Reasoning

WALTER CLIFFORD HARVEY

"COME now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

What a glorious request is this—to come and reason together with God! In it is no hint of compulsion—merely a kind and tender admonition to pause a moment in the tumult, haste, and, oftentimes, stress and worry of daily experience, to think on the things which are spiritual and to solve whatever problems seem to be facing us at the time in a calm, orderly manner, on a correct basis of reasoning, a basis which starts with the all-important fact that God is All-in-all.

A patient on a sick bed may not see at once just how a system of reasoning can help or benefit him in his difficulties. In some cases, perhaps, he has already tried to reason in justification of his illness—an impossible task as one learns in Christian Science. Others have taken a different line of thought and tried to reason that sickness is the will of God and, therefore, not to be contended against. There are various other lines of reasoning which are founded upon human so-called intelligence alone, and which bear little or no fruit. They have no resemblance to the reasoning referred to in the Biblical passage, "Come now, and let us reason together;" for this reasoning involves spiritual understanding, and is the only true method of gaining access to the kingdom of heaven, harmony. Basing our thinking upon God as the creator of all that really is, we cannot fail to arrive at the consciousness of Truth, Life, and Love, in which is not a single trace of sin, sickness, or sorrow. This is the consciousness that brings healing, whether it be of sickness, sorrow, self-condemnation, self-pity, or lack.

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