Editorial September 4, 1954 Issue

FINDING MAN IN SCIENCE

Helen Wood Bauman

Whoever seeks to find man in matter is following a vain quest, for man is not there. Man must be found in divine Science, the truth of being, where he exists as the Father made him—the perfect expression of God. Since God is Spirit, man is spiritual. His identity, entirely apart from matter, is unseen to the physical senses and is as enduring as its unseen Maker.

Man is individual consciousness, and he manifests the joy and love and truthfulness, the justice and wisdom and intelligence, of Spirit. We faintly glimpse the real man when we find individuals expressing naturally these noble elements of thought. But man in Science is absolute, flawless, infinite in those qualities of Spirit which are manifested through him. It is upon the basis of understanding man in Science that Christian Science heals the sick and sinful, for the authentic conception of man rules out of thought the false mortal beliefs concerning him.

Mary Baker Eddy gives us this explanation in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 46): "In Science, man represents his divine Principle,—the Life and Love that are God.—even as the idea of sound, in tones, represents harmony; but thought has not yet wholly attained unto the Science of being, wherein man is perfect even as the Father, his divine Principle, is perfect." Failing to express the nature of God, we are like the unsounded harmonies of a symphony. Our strength and our beauties of character are mute, our Principle is unexpressed.

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