Article August 4, 1951 Issue

"THE LINE OF DEMARCATION"

SUSAN F. CAMPBELL

THAT God is the creator of all that is real is held as a fundamental fact in Christian Science, and it follows as a natural sequence that what God did not make is unreal. Mary Baker Eddy writes as follows in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 505): "Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and unreal."

The Bible urges the necessity for getting understanding, for it is spiritual understanding which purifies thought regarding God and His creation and reveals His creation as spiritual, eternal, and real. This understanding also shows how entirely separate spiritual creation is from a belief in that which is material, temporal, and therefore unreal.

"The line of demarcation between the real and unreal" becomes more apparent through the demonstration of Christian Science, which proves that the student is not merely a theorist, but a practical doer of the works. The Scientist knows that he cannot pray for material things, but he earnestly prays to know that the will of God is being done in every detail of his experience. To cling to the unreal—to think of man-made objects as spiritual things—shows a confusion of thought which should be corrected. Material things, the outcome of material thinking, can never become spiritual, for they are counterfeits of the real and eternal.

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