Article December 29, 1951 Issue

SEEING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING

PETER J. HENNIKER HEATON

Christian Science is exact Science. Its divine Principle, God, who is also Love, tenderly insists on all its rules being obeyed in order that its full fruitage of health and satisfaction may appear.

When the writer was once meeting a physical difficulty, the Christian Science practitioner, whom he had asked to help him, repeatedly called his attention to the Biblical statement (Isa. 46:9, 10), "I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure." The practitioner pointed out that just as God declares the end from the beginning, so we too in seeking healing need always to recognize and affirm the end, our perfect wholeness, from the start. As the patient did this, it contributed powerfully to the healing which followed.

On page 374 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "You confess to ignorance of the future and incapacity to preserve your own existence, and this belief helps rather than hinders disease." Do we sometimes help disease by confessing to ignorance of the future? Then let us stop helping disease and see, instead, the end from the beginning; let us affirm our certainty of radical and complete healing. Job did not wait for material symptoms of recovery before he rose above his earlier doubts and confidently declared (19:26), "Yet in my flesh shall I see God," and this rejection by him of belief in the sufferings of the flesh prepared the way for his later experience to be abundantly blessed.

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