Article October 13, 1945 Issue

Seeing Rightly

ALFRED H. HULSCHER

A Little girl who was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School became involved in a minor accident. To one who came to her assistance she said, "Please, mister, do not see what you are looking at."

Thus, in simple language, she epitomized one of the essentials of spiritual healing. The Shunammite woman refusing to see her child as dead, Daniel refusing to see himself at the mercy of the lions, the three Hebrew youths refusing to admit that the flames of the fiery furnace had power to harm, Jesus refusing to admit that the widow's son was dead—these are all examples which point to the value of rejecting the testimony of the material sense of sight.

Another illustration occurs in the account of the meeting, outside the temple, of Peter and John with the lame man. Their clear consciousness quite evidently did not see what material vision told them they were looking at. They did not see one lame from birth, helpless and hopeless. The healing that followed was the natural consequence of their clear vision of man in the image and likeness of God.

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