Article April 18, 1959 Issue

"TRUTH'S HONEST CHILD"

ARVA M. KNOWLES

That "honesty is the best policy" has been accepted for many generations as a suitable moral standard of righteous living. Such a policy is considered conducive to self-respect and respect from one's co-workers, friends, and neighbors.

While Christian Science encourages the individual to improve his moral and spiritual outlook and behavior, it goes beyond the presentation of estimable maxims into the basic facts of existence and the unchanging law of God. It enables us to prove that there is only one God, good, the infinite, ever-present, divine Mind, and that His law is supreme and ever operative.

Mary Baker Eddy gives in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," seven synonyms for God, among which are Principle and Truth. From this Godhead emanate all holiness, integrity, uprightness, goodness.

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