Editorial August 11, 1951 Issue

SPIRITUAL RADICALISM

Richard J. Davis

A CONSECRATED study of Christian Science leads directly to the rejection by its students of all suggestions of disease and sin. It is considered wrong and unscientific to coincide with the countless afflictive beliefs of physiology and materia medica. And yet it is possible that with many the belief of death may unconsciously be accepted as a necessity and sometimes as a desirable experience.

Let us consider this for a moment. The belief of death is surely not lessened even if we call it passing on. It still remains as evil, as error, to be faced and proved unreal. Someone may say that we cannot take a radical position about death. We are met with excuses and apologies concerning its overcoming. But the fact remains that the declaration of every Christian Scientist should be: "Life is God. All is Life, and there is no death." Referring to this, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," makes a statement that we may well consider (p. 430): "When man gives up his belief in death, he will advance more rapidly towards God, Life, and Love. Belief in sickness and death, as certainly as belief in sin, tends to shut out the true sense of Life and health. When will mankind wake to this great fact in Science?"

How are we going to advance more rapidly without following our Leader's instruction to give up the belief in death and its anticipation? She also tells us that the basis of our mortal enslavement is found in the fear of disease and the love of sin. Every healing of physical disease is, in a sense, a victory over death and its underlying fear. Back of the belief in lack there unconsciously lurks the fear of death. Paul in his epistle to the Hebrews refers to the deliverance of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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