Article July 1, 1939 Issue

The Unreality of War

EMMA EASTON NEWMAN

Unique in its method of solving the problems of human existence, Christian Science sets forth eternal, unchangeable Truth, and yet shows the necessity of advancing toward the demonstration of Truth step by step. This method is neither a Utopian disregard of seemingly existent conditions nor a dejected acceptance of evil as something which must be endured with as good grace as possible, in the belief that the only hope lies in a far-away heaven.

Those persons who have been consistent adherents of Christian Science for a period of years could and do testify to healings received when, in the face of what appeared to be invalidism or distress of some sort, they were able to know the truth which healed. When a Scientist "knows the truth" which corrects any erroneous condition or situation, he recognizes that the evidence of the five material senses is based on supposition, with God left out of premise and conclusion. He realizes that the only tenable premise is creative Mind, the "us" spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis, where the record reads: "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ... God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Having accepted the premise, he must also accept the conclusion, and refuse to behold as real anything that is not "very good."

The Christian Scientist, faced with seemingly fatal disease, holds clearly and firmly to the fact that discord has no entity and no course to run, because it has no origin or ultimate in creative Mind. If he succeeds in knowing the truth, his patient awakens from the dream of sickness—is healed. If a student of this truth can stand by a so-called sickbed and know that in reality there is no sickness, and demonstrate the truth, then what is he to do before a so-called sick world? Is there war in creative Mind? Is there war where God beheld and still beholds everything as "very good"? No! War exists only in the realm of mortal mind, where sickness and sin seem to exist, that is, in a dream world.

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