Editorial February 20, 1960 Issue

LOOKING AND SEEING

Ralph E. Wagers

If we would see, we must look. But when we look, we see only what we are prepared to comprehend. What we see, then, is not so important as how we see it. We may see a jet airplane in flight, for instance, and know what it is. But if one observes such an airplane for the first time, with no comprehension of what it is, he might consider it to be some kind of monstrous bird, start spreading frightening stories about what he saw, and add one more fable to credulous thought.

What do we know of the things we see and take for granted? How much do we understand passages of the Bible with which we are familiar? What do we know of man and the universe? And when it comes right down to it how much do we know, really know, of Christian Science?

According to the Apostle Paul, the carnal mind is "enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7). Under its mesmeric influence we think of ourselves, and others, as sinning mortals or, perhaps, as mere physical organisms. Such false beliefs completely obscure man's divine nature. But when through spiritual sense, through Science, we behold man's true nature, his likeness to God, we comprehend the spiritual sense of him, and this true sense of man always has a healing effect.

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