Article October 1, 1966 Issue

Rejecting False Testimony

AURIEL WYNDHAM ADAMS

One beautiful winter day I decided to take a walk and photograph some snow scenes. On looking through the viewing glass of the camera, I realized that it was cracked in many places, thus giving me a distorted view of the scenery. Confident of good results, I took eight photographs and was later rewarded with eight beautiful prints. Why was I so sure that the pictures would be good? Because I knew that the distortion did not obtain in the scenery, or in the lens of the camera, but in the viewing medium.

Christian Science not only shows us that God and His idea, man, can never be truly seen through the distorting medium of the material senses, but it teaches us how we may reject this material view and replace it with the spiritual one.

Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health, "God, good, being ever present, it follows in divine logic that evil, the suppositional opposite of good, is never present."^{ Science and Health, p. 72;} From this it is seen that whatever is sick, lacking, or inharmonious in any way is unreal, whether it appears in our own lives or the lives of others. The unreality of these conditions is proved not by attempting to change the effect we see but by doing away with that which causes the effect.