Editorial June 13, 1942 Issue

The Supremely Important Question

Alfred Pittman

The student of Christian Science soon perceives that the supremely important question at any point in his experience is what testimony he is crediting. He sees that by considering the character and origin of the thoughts and evidences offered him, and giving them just the weight that they deserve, he can solve any difficulty—that this is the scientific means of overcoming evil in any form and of maintaining true success and progress.

Suppose it is a disease which he has to deal with. The appearances may argue that the trouble is material, and that he is dependent on material means for correcting it. But his understanding of Christian Science shows him that this is not so. He sees that his need is simply to take his leading and his conclusions from Mind, or God, instead of matter, in the manner clearly taught in Christian Science. As he does this, as he rejects material testimony and accepts that which is spiritually true, the disease disappears and he had the evidence of health and harmony.

Why does this result follow? Because disease is never what it appears superficially to be. It is never material or real, much as it may seem so to the sufferer and others. It is always without substance, power, or presence, as the absolute allness of God, good, clearly shows. Hence all there is to disease in any instance is illusion, which is apparent only to the human consciousness mistakenly and mesmerically focused upon it; and when this so-called consciousness turns from the false sense, and accepts instead the evidence of Mind, divine Life and Love, the disease naturally vanishes.

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