Article December 30, 1950 Issue

ABSOLUTE TRUTH HEALS

WINFIELD F. BRASCH

IN a sense, education is not so much the accumulation of knowledge as it is the overcoming of ignorance. If one admits this, he will be prepared to see that pure metaphysical truth can overcome false, restrictive material concepts by bringing one into the richness of a realization of the truth as revealed in the exact Science of the Christ, or Christian Science.

When Mary Baker Eddy declares in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 242) that "Christian Science is absolute," she implies that its truths being absolute, are perfect, complete, and certain, free from limitation, and not subject to adulteration, compromise, or rationalization. Because this Science is absolute she declares further, "It is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom." Then she continues, "Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration. By this I do not mean that mortals are the children of God,—far from it. In practising Christian Science you must state its Principle correctly, or you forfeit your ability to demonstrate it."

When Jesus enunciated his rule, "If ye continue in my word, ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31, 31), he referred to truth in its absolute sense. The absolute truth alone heals, because Truth permits no reservations. Joshua said, "Choose you this day whom ye will serve" (Josh. 24:15). Elijah put it this way: "How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him" (I Kings 18:21). Paul admonished, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light" (Eph. 5:14). Each was saying in his own way that truth must be seen as fundamental, irresistible, and final, and that to accept its absoluteness, to know it as the Master did, is to deny error and thus to experience spiritual knowledge, wisdom, and joy, which are the prerogatives of the children of God.