Editorial April 4, 1931 Issue

Evidence

Violet Ker Seymer

False evidence can be destroyed by the substitution of true evidence. The ministry of Christ Jesus exemplified this method. Wherever the evidence of the corporeal senses seemed to show forth specific discord, there the Master, abiding with the things of Spirit, brought forth the evidence of life, sight, strength, intelligence, activity, purity. He reversed the objectified lie which argued that evil is present, and that the faculties of man are absent.

On page 8 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 Mrs. Eddy writes: "The life of Christ Jesus, his words and his deeds, demonstrate Love. We have no evidence of being Christian Scientists except we possess this inspiration, and its power to heal and to save." This inspiration, power, and evidence is, then, what the Christian Scientist lives to bring into manifestation both for his own benefit and that of others. Christian Science is not tentative: it is spiritually authoritative, and the Christian Scientist reflects this divine authority. All false evidence must, therefore, be rebuked with spiritual power and the immovable conviction of evil's illegitimacy. The great calm of Truth imparts its own calm to the true thinker. It is only false belief which is disturbed.

In a court of law false testimony parades itself, but it does not destroy correct evidence; it merely obscures it in the eyes of those whom it deceives. The purpose of the honest attorney is to call forth the correct evidence, which will at once free the accused. Similarly, it is the business of the Christian Scientist to release the prisoner of materiality. It is his business to call forth the true evidence and to remand to silence corporeal sense, the accuser. It is essential that Truth alone should continually be voiced by one who seeks emancipation; and it is equally necessary that error be as continually silenced by one who has turned to Christian Science for freedom. It is mental freedom that he is winning by reflecting divine Mind and denying evil.

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