Editorial August 27, 1960 Issue

Is It Real, or Is It Only Apparent?

Ralph E. Wagers

Not everything that is apparent is what we believe it to be. If what we observe is an effect, it must have a cause. But if it does not have a cause, what is it? It must be an illusion, a false impression, a misleading appearance. Then how are we to distinguish what is real from what is only apparent? Through correct reasoning.

Mrs. Eddy writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 349), "Inductive or deductive reasoning is correct only as it is spiritual, induced by love and deduced from God, Spirit; only as it makes manifest the infinite nature, including all law and supplying all the needs of man."

It hardly seems necessary to remind ourselves that a wholly good cause must express itself in a wholly good effect. But in spite of the Scriptural assurance in the first chapter of Genesis that God made man in His own image and likeness, how often do we think of God as wholly good and of man as a sinning mortal?

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