Editorial July 23, 1955 Issue

"THE SCIENTIFIC MAN AND HIS MAKER ARE HERE"

Harold Molter

When we went to school, we had to do many exercises in multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. These exercises involved abstract figures and, in themselves, held nothing of practical value for us, except perhaps mental satisfaction or relief when we found the right answers. But later in life we were grateful for these exercises if we had to make change, or tend store, or make a dress, or balance a checkbook, or carry on any number of human activities involving numbers. If we had not learned the basic facts of mathematics, we could not solve many of the practical problems which present themselves to us each day.

In the practice of Christian Science it is necessary to know the spiritual facts and laws of Truth, Life, and Love. These facts and laws may seem abstract to us when we read them as revealed in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Among these basic truths we learn in Science that the perfect God, or divine Mind, includes within Himself all creation—countless individual ideas, each reflecting or expressing the individuality of the creator. All of these ideas are eternal, perfect, spiritual.

Now someone may say that this picture of a perfect creator and a perfect creation—a universe of countless spiritual ideas—is beautiful to contemplate. It is like the abstract truths of mathematics. But how does it help one who is suffering from human problems, such as lack, fear, sickness, separation? How can the truths of Christian Science correct and eliminate these errors through its claim that creation is wholly spiritual?

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