Article October 12, 1946 Issue

Truth and Its Objectification

[Original Article in French]

GASTON CHERRIÈRE

It is essential to the advancement of Christian Science in the world that Christian Scientists know how to present it in a simple and correct manner. A long or confused explanation of what Science is can only give those unacquainted with the subject an impression of complexity, and may turn them away, causing them to consider it too transcendental and abstract for their understanding.

When the writer of this article wishes to bring out the humanitarian aim of Christian Science, particularly as regards healing, he always refers to the definition given by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of this Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says (p. 482): "Christian Science is the law of Truth, which heals the sick on the basis of the one Mind or God. It can heal in no other way, since the human, mortal mind so-called is not a healer, but causes the belief in disease."

Such a definition is complete in itself. But it is important to note that it demands the elimination of the human mind from the work of healing, declaring that this so-called mind, being error, cannot destroy error. It is indeed obvious that one error cannot destroy another, just as darkness cannot dispel darkness. Only that which is superior to error, and has power over it, is able to destroy error. Then, Truth alone is superior to hypothetical error, solely because it is Truth, infinite, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and is All. Truth being All, so-called error can only be an illusion, a hypothesis, nothingness; and being nothing, it can have no real existence or power.

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