Editorial December 1, 1945 Issue

There Is an Answer to Your Problem

John Randall Dunn

Have you known bafflement and frustration in your human experience? Have you despaired of fathoming or mastering what Omar Khayyam calls "this sorry Scheme of Things entire"? Have you, perchance, prayed for light, for leading, with all the earnestness at your command, and apparently not heard the voice saying, in the words of Scripture (Isa. 30:21), "This is the way, walk ye in it"?

Christian Science has a message for you, and it is this: There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem! Christian Science announces that it is Science, the Science of Christianity, which so speaks; and real Science is not human conjecture, but "a system of ascertained facts." Next, Christian Science declares that Christ Jesus was the world's master Scientist, and that his healing work was not miraculous but divinely natural, because it was based upon a scientific, demonstrable knowledge of God. Therefore, when the Master invites suffering and sinful humanity to come to him and find healing and rest, he is bidding mankind turn not to the human Jesus, but to that spiritual power, the Christ, which he had proved to be the reflection of omnipotent Truth.

If a schoolteacher sees a child sitting hopelessly before a mathematical problem, and averring that arithmetic is not working for him, what is the teacher's reaction? Does he join the child in his mistaken, despairing concept? Does he not rather strive to awaken his pupil to the simple yet profound truth that arithmetic is the science of numbers? Will he not endeavor to banish from the child's thought any sense of luck, chance, or failure in connection with the solving of his problems? Will not the pupil be shown that his arrival at the correct answer is contingent only upon patient, persistent effort and intelligent application of the rules governing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division? That which is based on scientific, demonstrable Truth has never failed, can never fail. A seeming failure can only be laid at the door of ignorance—lack of knowing.

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