Article August 4, 1945 Issue

Loving Through to the Real

DOUGLAS ROBERTS

There is never any excuse for destructive criticism, for condemnation never heals. If our concept of anyone stops at the mortal appearance, we are accepting the world's point of view and are rejecting Christian Science. The new vision, like the new tongue, deals with the spiritual reality. There is only the man whom God made, spiritual and perfect, and he is the inhabitant of God's spiritual universe. Any other sense of the universe and man is a false, mortal concept, a darkened vision that fails to see the true picture. But the seeing through, or the loving through, to the real is the only possible method of Christ-healing. As Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

To correct any condition or solve any problem we must seek the truth which will bring to light whatever in our consciousness is unlike good. We must be sure that the "accuser of our brethren" is not there. Divine Love never condemns man, but pierces the unreality of evil and beholds the child of God. Jesus stated his mission and what should be our mission when he said (John 3:17), "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world: but that the world through him might be saved."

The necessity of finding the solution of a problem by first purifying one's own consciousness was impressed upon a student of Christian Science by the following experience. Word was unexpectedly received from a friend that he was coming to this student's home for a long visit. Such a turn of events did not fit in at that time with the very busy summer that had been planned. Nevertheless, the friend was invited to come, and his visit extended over two months. Not having the happy faculty of fitting in with the harmonious routine of the home, the friend sought to dominate others and to rearrange things to suit himself.

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