Article February 4, 1933 Issue

Life Obtained from Truth

ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN

Christian Science turns our gaze from the material body to the spiritual facts of being, pointing out that we should keep ourselves busy with right thinking. Before we knew anything about Christian Science, the material body was the chief concern of most of us. Paul speaks of being willing "to be absent from the body, and ... present with the Lord." The value of so doing is soon seen by the student of Christian Science, for he finds that proportionately as he keeps his thought on the spiritual fact, he can forget the material body, and his body is harmonious.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, speaks of abiding "in Life,—life obtained not of the body incapable of supporting life, but of Truth, unfolding its own immortal idea" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 325). We can never know true health until we stop looking to the body for health; until, instead of accepting what the material body seems to say, we turn to the truth of being and let spiritual sense form our conclusions.

All who have felt the sense of peace and joy which comes with a healing through Christian Science have had a taste of true health, of life obtained of Truth, unfolding more and more of good, purity, and harmony. In the degree that we turn to the truth of being for evidence, instead of to the material senses, we experience true health. Let us earnestly endeavor, then, to keep before our thought the true universe and man; and if the material senses seem to testify to any discordant condition, let us hold to the spiritual fact, for there is a spiritual fact always present which, when realized, will specifically reverse the material fable.

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