Article May 4, 1957 Issue

THE ONLY CREDIBLE EVIDENCE

CLAIRE HAMILTON

"Science reverses the false testimony of the physical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being." Thus on page 120 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gives us the basis for determining what is real and what is illusive.

There was a time when the people of the world believed the earth to be flat because it appeared to be so. There have been individuals through the centuries who have dared to discredit what their eyes have told them. Through reason based upon the observable evidence of various laws, not upon visual sense, certain early Greek astronomers came to the conclusion that the flat appearance was merely illusion. Columbus, an Italian seaman, was one who later proved this fact, because he did not believe the illusion of a flat earth. His discovery helped to release the world from limitation and to open opportunity for freedom, expansion, and progress. Mankind have proceeded to prove unmistakably that although the assumption that the earth is round contradicts our material sense of sight even now, it is nonetheless a fact.

Less than a century ago another individual dared to discredit evidence offered by the material senses. These senses claim that life is in matter, that matter is substance and is real, that birth and death and material so-called laws are the inescapable facts which limit man's area of activity to a few meaningless years, and that sorrow, disease, and mistakes are natural occurrences. This individual, Mary Baker Eddy, saw although the material senses testify unmistakably to limitaions, the true nature of man's being is spiritual, infinite, peaceful, blessed, healthful, and that the material and limited appearance is illusion.

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