Article October 28, 1933 Issue

The Right Point of View

THOMAS R. MINTURN, JR.

When one learns in Christian Science that all things are mental, that everything one cognizes is a mental concept, the importance of differentiating between what is true and what is false is seen.

Christian Science teaches that the true concept of man, the offspring of Life, God, is spiritual. It teaches that the belief of man as mortal, material, sickly, sinful, and dying is untrue, and therefore is to be rejected. Through the acceptance of this spiritual view and the rejection of all that is false, thought is gradually conformed to the point of view of divine good, where God sees all His creation in a spiritual and eternal light. Such reasoning makes it easier for the individual to detect in his thinking everything unspiritual, and cast it out as a phase of nothingness.

This is the way Jesus worked. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Whatever the material presentation seemed to be—whether disease, lack, sin, or death—our great Master, through seeing that God is All-in-all, and His creation is perfect, and that consequently evil is nothing, destroyed every form of error and established in its place the healthy, normal state or condition.

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