Article October 19, 1946 Issue

"On which side are we fighting?"

NORAH M. COSTERTON

On page 216 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Spirituality lays open siege to materialism. On which side are we fighting?" This is a searching question. There is no neutral or halfway position between spirituality and materialism.

The student of Christian Science has enlisted in the great army marching "forth in the strength of God" to lessen and destroy the devastating beliefs of sin, sickness, and death. This great work can be accomplished only as the soldiers of Christ are loyal, steadfast, and courageous, thus morally equipped for the battle between Truth and error with the weapons of faith and spiritual understanding, which are "mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds" (II Cor. 10:4).

Spirituality appertains to the things of Spirit, to divine reality; materialism has only the supposed substance of matter for its flimsy basis. Actually there is nothing tangible to combat in this warfare against the belief in error's seeming power and reality, for as the belief yields to spiritual understanding, self-forged fetters lose their hold on mortal thought and gradually fall away. These fetters of sin and sickness are the impositions of the carnal mind, which mortals have been educated to accept as their God-bestowed and inevitable heritage.

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