Article April 17, 1948 Issue

THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD IS DEMONSTRABLE

BESSIE L. CARN

The practice of Christian Science requires some degree of understanding of God's allness as infinite Mind, Spirit, or Life, of man's present and eternal perfection as Mind's immortal idea or reflection, of the changeless, indestructible universe, and of Love's perpetual law of universal harmony. The Christian Scientist spiritually understands that the so-called phenomenon termed material life is unreal; that not one atom of its testimony is true. Matter, or evil, is unknown to God, good, and hence exists only in supposititious mortal mind, Its false claims to existence are rejected and cast out of human consciousness through the knowledge and utilization of divine law. Inharmonies of the human body and human environment are false beliefs, delusions of mortal mind. Regardless of the nature of the discord, the student of Christian Science denies every erroneous belief because he understands something of the power of God, good.

When a Christian Science practitioner is asked to help overcome a specific claim of evil, he does not allow himself to be overcome by material sense testimony. Rather does he reject the mesmeric suggestion of man as a sick or sinful mortal and through spiritual ascendancy acknowledge the present perfection of God and man, the truth which Christ Jesus said "shall make you free." In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 423): "The Christian Scientist, understanding scientifically that all is Mind, commences with mental causation, the truth of being, to destroy the error. This corrective is an alterative, reaching to every part of the human system. According to Scripture, it searches 'the joints and marrow,' and it restores the harmony of man."

Some years after a woman had begun earnestly to investigate the Science of Mind-healing, a neighbor came to her home on an errand. For several months he had been suffering from the effects of a foot injury sustained while on duty in a large manufacturing plant. He had been under the constant care and observation of the company's doctors, who were doing their utmost to restore him to health and normal activity. His foot was in a cast, necessitating the use of crutches. In response to the writer's inquiry as to his progress, he replied that the doctors had said that a portion of his foot was dead, and that this portion must be amputated within a few days.

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