Article July 26, 1947 Issue

TRUTH REFUTES SENSE TESTIMONY

ELIZABETH JEAN SHARTS

Christian Science is the absolute truth about God and His spiritual creation, and because it is absolute it makes no concessions to matter. To the one struggling with illness it says, "You are not really ill, for man is ever perfect, abiding not in a disease-ridden material body but in the realm of Spirit, and expressing the health, vigor, and wholeness bestowed upon him by his heavenly Father." To the sinner it says: "Declare your freedom in the name of Almighty God. Realize that you are constantly bearing witness to right desire, satisfaction, completeness, and purity, for God sees you only thus, without any taint of materiality." To the weary and disheartened it says: "Look up! Every moment of the day God is loving and caring for you, and you can never stray from His beneficent presence."

The world's thought, alias mortal mind with its long history of darkness, chaos, and disillusionment, would have us believe that any refutation of the testimony of the material senses to sin, sickness, and discouragement with all their attendant ills is fantastic and without reason. But the same senses testify that the earth is flat, that the sky and water meet at the horizon, and that the earth is stationary and the sun in motion. Do we accept this testimony as true? Certainly not, for we accept without reservation the findings of physical science relative to these matters. Let us be just as definite in rejecting material sense testimony relative to health, happiness, and harmony, and in accepting the testimony of spiritual sense about man and his perfection as taught in Christian Science.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 120): "Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being. Then the question inevitably arises: Is a man sick if the material senses indicate that he is in good health? No! for matter can make no conditions for man. And is he well if the senses say he is sick? Yes, he is well in Science in which health is normal and disease is abnormal. Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health." These words are provable; they express the law of divine Principle that man, as God's likeness, is untouched by any material condition.

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