Editorial May 27, 1950 Issue

TRUTH INFLEXIBLE

George Channing

Truth is always winsome, but it never placates or appeases untruth. Truth stands upon its own permanence and beauty, and it is aware only of its own exclusive presence. Truth is infinite Mind, or God. Infinite Mind's expression of itself is man. Hence the individual who desire to prove himself to be man must do so by proving himself to be that by which infinite Mind, or Truth, expresses itself; in other words, that which is comprised of the qualities or spiritual ideas which make Truth manifest.

Such an individual is necessarily directing his efforts continuously toward greater and greater expression of Truth's unopposed presence, reality, and beauty. Within the range of his purpose there can be no desire to mollify any apparent attacker of Truth, for the unopposed status of Truth reduces to illusion both the attacker and the attacks which the attacker, being a dreamer, merely dreams that he is making.

Something of the wisdom, therefore, of dedicating oneself to the uninterrupted expression of Truth, and something of the folly of espousing any course of appeasement in human experience, is made plain in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science. There, for instance, Mrs. Eddy makes this remarkable statement (P. 238): "Attempts to conciliate society and so gain dominion over mankind, arise from worldly weakness."

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