Editorial March 29, 1930 Issue

Applied Science

Clifford P. Smith

"The term Christian Science," Mrs. Eddy has written in her principal work, "relates especially to Science as applied to humanity" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 127). The system of thought that she discovered and formulated is not only the Science of absolute reality: it applies also and especially to human conduct and to human welfare. The latter aspect of this subject is the one that has seemed difficult to fulfill or even to understand. So this explanation is offered with the hope that it may help to elucidate a difficult point.

In absolute reality, all being, all that exists, is infinite Mind and its representatives There is nothing else. The representatives of Mind include individual man and other forms of reality, but no error or evil. There is, then, no mingling of error with man. This absolute truth is what human consciousness needs to accept and prove. This consciousness seems to be a mingling of error with true thought, resulting in an adulterated person having an obscured concept of everything. Of course, such a person needs to be saved: he needs to be redeemed from adulteration. Since this process is not instantaneous, the so-called human being has human needs incident to his transient condition, which continue until human life disappears and the individual no longer seems to be contaminated.

A human being seems to exist by himself and to depend on material resources. These appearances are erroneous. Actually, the divine Mind sustains the human being by sustaining the real man. God, the infinite Life, is always imparting abundant life to every man, regardless of error; for, as Christ Jesus once said, "all live unto him" (Luke 20:38). In short, the divine resources are completely available to the so-called human person because of the real man's relation to God. Directly and indirectly, therefore, the ever giving Love, the ever acting Principle, supplies to every man all that he requires, even while his concept of himself and of his needs is seemingly obscured.

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