Editorial September 2, 1961 Issue

The Wide-angle "lens of Science"

Carl J. Welz

Many problems in our human lives defy solution because of the narrowness of our field of vision. We see clearly what the problem appears to be, and we take appropriate measures to solve it. But the solution does not come, because we have not reckoned with the whole of the error confronting us. A scientific approach to the problem requires a broader view.

Christian Science shows us that disease is not merely a local physical disturbance, but the phenomenon of material belief as a whole. To heal disease, one must deny this total material belief in consciousness where it appears, and we deny this belief by applying the truth of the allness and perfection of the divine Mind, God.

As a photographer uses a wide-angle lens to take in more of the scene he is shooting, so the progressing student of Christian Science learns to face more and more of the human picture before him with the cleansing, freeing truth. On page 331 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Scriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that nothing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas. The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit. Therefore in Spirit all is harmony, and there can be no discord; all is Life, and there is no death. Everything in God's universe expresses Him."

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