Article October 21, 1939 Issue

Recognition of God's Allness

LESLIE LUTZ ANDERSON

Proportionately as one understands the Science of man, he puts off false mortal beliefs about him. As one discerns man in the image and likeness of God, wholly spiritual, he ceases to believe that he is corporeal. Christian Science destroys false beliefs concerning man, and teaches men to demonstrate the allness—the presence and the power—of God.

Christian Science healing repudiates the very existence of false material claims. The student refuses to acknowledge that there can be any truth in the testimony of material sense. He does not dwell upon such testimony or rehearse it at length. If he searches for erroneous beliefs at all, he does so only to dissolve them into their native nothingness. The essential objective in Christian Science is the discernment and demonstration of "the spiritual idea unenvironed by materiality," to quote Mrs. Eddy's words on page 122 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany."

Sin, disease, death are material claims about man, and exist only as belief. The man that God created reflects Him in all His perfect qualities. Striving to grasp the spiritual idea, we deny the unreal and declare the truth. Thus Christ Jesus is recorded as saying, "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay."

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