Article June 9, 1945 Issue

Trusting in Your Statements of Truth

PEARL G. ANDREWS

When confronted with any problem, a Christian Science student will usually find himself taking refuge and gaining courage in his firm declarations of the truth of being. Although he may not understand all the truth contained in those statements, yet his diligent study of the writings of Mary Baker Eddy has shown him the healing power of her spiritually scientific statements. He knows also that his necessity is not only to affirm them but faithfully to apply them, if he would gain the understanding wherewith to demonstrate more fully the presence of God, good.

With this spiritual defense in his heart and upon his lips the student vigorously refuses to accept the assertions of the error, whatever it may be, however boldly it flaunts its colors before him. With power from on high he calmly declares truths such as these: God is good, God is All; hence error is nothing. In his search for spiritual understanding the student soon reaches the unmistakable conclusion that, to be healed, error must be found to be nothing. In order to gain this realization the value of both denial and affirmation is discerned. Important as is the place which denial holds in his arguments against evil, the affirmations of God's allness, however, are of still more importance and must be firmly and faithfully adhered to. It is true that familiarizing oneself with truth, through radical and persistent declarations of it, not only aids in obliterating the beliefs of mortal sense, but goes far in rendering realistic the facts of being.

There are those of us who may vividly recall that in the primary grades a teacher would frequently require a pupil to write correctly, a certain number of times, upon the blackboard or his "scribbler," a word which had been misspelled, hoping that the repetition of the word in its correct form would impress it on the thought of the pupil. Similarly, oft-repeated affirmations of God's allness accompanied by as clear a realization of its truth as is possible in our present understanding, help to eliminate error from consciousness and to establish spiritual truth.

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