Editorial March 26, 1960 Issue

ACCEPTING AND DEMONSTRATING CHRISTLY FACTS

John J. Selover

Human beliefs are touched and corrected by Christly facts. The understanding of spiritual health bestowed by God, divine Love, for example, corrects the false belief in disease, and as a result the ailing one enjoys an improved sense of well-being. The fact of the ever-presence of infinite intelligence operating in one's thought corrects the false beliefs that confusion, frustration, indecision, and ignorance are present. The fact of God's infinite presence and power, applied, acts as a law of correction to the belief that we are weak mortals and exist apart from Him. Healing is the natural result.

The facts of being awaken us to understand that, despite the drab picture of mortality, we are even now existent in Spirit, God, and that every aspect of our true, individual identity is harmonious, beautiful, perfect. In the first chapter of Genesis we are told, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." This heaven and this earth are spiritual and eternally perfect. The same is true of man, whom He made in His image and likeness. There is no mortality, materiality, imperfection, or discord in God's creation. Christian Science shows us how to demonstrate the underlying fact of perfection.

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 364), "The rule of mental practice in Christian Science is strictly to handle no other mentality but the mind of your patient, and treat this mind to be Christly." The redemptive process in Christian Science is wholly mental. The truths of Christian Science breathed into the consciousness which is out of harmony with reality awaken the individual to an improved concept of life and its actualities. Since mental concepts determine bodily conditions, a Christly attitude operates as a natural corrective to discords of the flesh. The more receptive one is to the spiritual facts of real being, the sooner will the fruitage of well-being appear in his experience.

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