Article November 9, 1940 Issue

Changing the Evidence

AUDREY M. DAVIES

THE difference between the man with religion and the man without religion, might be said to be that the one walks by faith and the other by sight—that is, material sight. The one, looking beyond the evidence of the material senses, renders himself independent, in a degree, of the ups and downs, the shifts and changes, that characterize mortal existence. The other, relying on the testimony of the senses, lends himself to their deceptions.

Such simple illusions as the rising of the sun, the meeting of parallel tracks in the distance, the disappearance of ships over the horizon, illustrate the deceptive nature of material sense. Even secular education attempts to impart a better sense of the physical universe through the knowledge obtained from the physical or so-called natural sciences.

Religion, in turn, would direct thought away from the contemplation of the illusive, temporal, and material, to the enduring evidence of things "not seen." Much of accepted religion, however, is based on superstition and ignorance, so that its bright promises often fail of fulfillment. Christian Science alone has penetrated to the full the illusion of matter and material living, and revealed the substance and essence of life as wholly spiritual. The Christian Scientist is proving how to demonstrate the unreality and consequent powerlessness of matter, discord, and evil, through the understanding of Spirit and spiritual being as the only realities.

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