Editorial July 5, 1941 Issue

"It is impossible that man should lose"

Alfred Pittman

Christian Science makes it clear that one can be afflicted only by crediting some falsity—something unlike spiritual truth. Therefore, the Christian Scientist recognizes it as his right and duty to challenge the belief that conscription, taxes, priorities, and other government regulations concerning personal and business affairs need be afflictive to himself or others. He is scrupulous in fulfilling all governmental requirements, but he rejects the suggestion that such compliance with human law must result in impaired usefulness or depletion for him or anyone.

The basis of his thought on this subject is set forth by Mary Baker Eddy in these words in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 302): "It is impossible that man should lose aught that is real, when God is all and eternally his." Man, the real selfhood of everyone, expresses God, and is inseparable from Him; and God is infinite Mind, Life, and Love—infinite good. Man has therefore the intelligence, the resourcefulness and power, which forever demonstrate the impossibility of restriction and lack; and this intelligence, proportionally as it is understood and utilized in human experience, prevents losses. It does not prevent change in human experience. Rather does it promote change, but the change is unfailingly progressive and in the way of demonstrating the genuine stability and satisfaction forever belonging to man. The true intelligence likewise is available to overcome losses which have seemed to occur. Christian Science shows that if one believes he must have trouble he may have it, but that through steadfast insistence on man's oneness with God, trouble of every sort can be overcome and prevented.

In absolute fact, there is no source from which restriction, dislocation, or injury can come. God is the only source, and the only presence, and He is infinite, harmonious, and utterly beneficent. The only real government is the government of God; and it is never unjust, never errs or limits, but is forever available to bless all men without measure, including those who seem humanly to be charged with the direction of government. These and all may experience and manifest the wisdom, inspiration, and dominion of the divine government. The Christian Scientist perceives that it is not within the province or power of the human or mortal mind to affect his real status, and that the divine Mind is forever immeasurably good to him and to all. He knows that from no quarter in all the universe could anything arise to keep him from expressing the wisdom and love, and therefore the affluence, of God; and proportionally as he realizes this fact, he demonstrates it, so that the demonstration is evident to human sense.

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