Article September 18, 1943 Issue

"What is truth?"

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

FRANCES DE WITT JOHN

"To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth," said Christ Jesus to Pontius Pilate. Steeped in materialism and no doubt puzzled at this sublime concept of life, the Roman governor countered, "What is truth?"

Thinkers before and since that momentous trial at Jerusalem have asked themselves the same age-old question, "What is truth?" In the physical or chemical laboratory, the history or English course, or the mathematics class, the student endeavors to establish the authenticity of that which is presented. Indeed, the daily round is a quest for truth.

In view of this incessant search for exactitude as to earthly things, it is not surprising that high school and college students seek certainty in spiritual things. A Sunday-school student thus put the matter specifically to her teacher: "How can I convince my associates who are atheistically inclined that the truth of being revealed in Christian Science is incontrovertible? They will not accept it if I tell them it is founded upon the Scriptures, because they view the Bible with amused skepticism."

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