Editorial September 27, 1952 ISSUE

THE CORRECT PREMISE

Richard J. Davis

On page 274 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy. its author, writes, "Divine Science is absolute, and permits no half-way position in learning its Principle and rule— establishing it by demonstration." This statement indicates, therefore, that in order to demonstrate the truth of Christian Science, one has to think from a standpoint that is absolutely correct; that is, from the standpoint of the present perfection of God and man. Truth is always absolute and therefore does not permit one to take a halfway position as far as one's thinking is concerned. Because Christ, Truth, is always available and operative in human experience, there is no condition where correct and absolute knowing will not eliminate and destroy an incorrect point of view.

Let us consider an example of spiritually correct knowing and, on the other hand, of thinking from a human or relative standpoint. Not infrequently someone says: "I like Christian Science; I believe in it. But I have so little understanding. How can I demonstrate its truth when I know so little?" At first thought it might seem proper and modest to take this attitude, but if one really wishes to grow in the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science it must be seen that such a statement is purely relative. Indeed it is incorrect, because it is in effect a denial of the truth. It is a denial of one's true and only selfhood.

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