Article October 23, 1937 Issue

"The objection is sustained"

CHRISSIE MAY MOGLE

Through the centuries, progress along various lines has been made. Discontent with existing conditions has caused men and women from time to time to protest against what seemed to them evil or unjust. The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a protest against oppression and suppression. The movement for woman's suffrage was a protest against the belief that woman was not qualified to take her place in civic affairs. Through the years, individuals who had the courage of their convictions have been brave enough to enter a protest against tradition and popular belief when it impeded progress.

Christian Science has come to a world waiting for release from sin, sickness, and death, and is teaching mankind how to protest intelligently against sickness. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 468), we find "the scientific statement of being," which begins with a protest against that which had been commonly accepted for centuries. She says, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter;" and then adds the emphatic declaration, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

At a court trial, when evidence is presented, sometimes an attorney exclaims, "I object!" and the judge may answer, "The objection is sustained," or, "The objection is overruled." The testimony of the witness is then either stricken out of the court records or retained as evidence.

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