Article April 6, 1940 Issue

"Seeming and being"

MARGUERITE SCOTT TILL

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," under the marginal heading "Seeming and being" (p. 123), Mary Baker Eddy says, "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas."

In obedience to their beloved Leader's teachings, students of Christian Science are consistently endeavoring to exclude matter from their thinking, and proportionately to their success they are able to replace "seeming" with "being," and to perceive the ideal man, God's image or idea, coexistent with Him. Through this spiritual discernment of true being, beliefs of sick organs and functions are being healed, poverty and unhappiness are being exchanged for affluence and joy; the blind see, the lame walk.

Is someone believing that he is suffering from disease, from sickness or loss, and is he puzzled perhaps as to how the replacing of "seeming" with "being" can possibly heal sick organs or functions? Let him study the method which Jesus used when he made the blind to see, the lame to walk, the cripples straight. In every case that Jesus healed he excluded matter—the opposite of God—so successfully from his thinking that he was able to replace the belief that man is composed of flesh, blood, and bones with a correct view of man as God's reflection, spiritual, perfect, indestructible, free!

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