Article December 23, 1939 Issue

True Substance

JOHN T. GUTTRIDGE

INDIVIDUALS in the grip of fear, sickness, uncertainty, and unrest make futile efforts to free themselves if they attempt to do so while holding the false belief that matter is true substance. Considering the extent of this false belief, it is apparent that the world has never been in greater need of the understanding of true substance than it is at present.

What, then, is substance? And how may it be practically demonstrated to the world? On page 468 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes wonderfully clear the nature of substance in the following words: "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance;" and she adds, "Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance."

Equipped with this divinely inspired definition, the student of Christian Science is today afforded many opportunities of exemplifying in his life the words of Zechariah the prophet, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts," which may be regarded as implying that no good can be accomplished through the exercise of physical force, but only through the divine substance of Spirit, expressed in love, wisdom, compassion, kindness, and the like.

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