Article July 19, 1947 Issue

HOW MAY WE ATTAIN ABSOLUTE FAITH?

FRED C. FISHER

The first sentence in the opening chapter of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," gives mankind a plain and simple rule of procedure in their quest for health and holiness. Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, had discovered the healing power demonstrated by Christ Jesus and had herself ably demonstrated its applicability to mankind's present-day needs before she penned these lines (ibid., p. 1): "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."

If we would reform the sinner and heal the sick, we must reflect the qualities our Master expressed —absolute faith, spiritual understanding, and unselfishness. Our faith in God's omnipresence and omnipotence must be able to stand in spite of material sense evidence and human belief; it must be unwavering and absolute, based upon spiritual understanding.

How to attain this absolute faith is the question that confronts the enthusiastic beginner in his study of Christian Science. He may believe its statements of truth and have a measure of faith in them, but until he proves them in his own experience his faith is no stronger than his belief, which is by no means reliable. The beginner in mathematics accepts the fact that two times two equals four, but until he proves this fact in the practical solution of a problem, his faith in its absolute correctness is neither unshakable nor absolute.

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