Editorial January 24, 1948 Issue

WRONG VERSUS RIGHT REASONING

Paul Stark Seeley

A Christian Science practitioner received a call for help from a church member in a small Christian Science organization. There was trouble in the church. The one calling was one of a group that was at outs with another group. Both groups were putting on a pretty poor exhibition of Christian Science. In fact they were acting as though they knew little or nothing about the love and unity which this Science inculcates. The next day a call came to the same practitioner from a member of the other group. Both of those calling wished the practitioner to pray for the healing of the discord in the church. Neither knew the other was calling.

Christian Science had taught the practitioner to base every treatment on the spiritual facts of being, God and His idea. She resolutely turned her thought away from this scene of contentious mortals. She knew that no such condition was attributable to God, infinite intelligence, positive Mind, and that it therefore had no substance or verity.

She saw that the spiritual fact which needed to be realized was that there is but one omnipotent Mind, the Father intelligence, which is individually and always demonstrated by men in humility, consideration, and good will. The fatherhood of the one God and the resulting brotherhood of man she saw were the antidote for evil's lie that there is a negative material mind evidenced in self-willed, contentious mortals, misunderstanding and striving with one another.

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