Editorial February 14, 1970 Issue

The Tonic of Truth

Alan A. Aylwin

Christian Science teaches that weakness or weariness originate not because one has an iron or vitamin deficiency but because one has somehow lost contact with God. A false sense of man as a mortal, adrift in a material, mechanistic universe, is the real culprit, and spiritual awakening to man's actual unity with infinite Spirit, or divine Truth, can restore his strength and well-being. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Truth is the tonic for the sick, and this medicine of Mind is not necessarily infinitesimal but infinite." Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 251, 252;

The Psalmist must temporarily have lost touch with his divine source when he wrote, "My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God." Then, as he regained his native spiritual perception and experienced its invigorating effect, he said, "Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. . . . They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." Ps. 84:2, 5, 7;

Spiritual inspiration, including the vigor and zest that go with it, flows from a scientific understanding of God. When in sufficient degree He is seen to be the divine Principle of man's being—man's vital, ever-active Life—the results show beyond cavil where health and strength really lie. Thousands of students of Christian Science are proving the practicality of spiritual ideas. As they learn to entertain in thought and express in daily life divine qualities such as love, purity, stillness, integrity, the sustaining presence of God is actually felt. God's qualities are inseparable from His boundless, buoyant, strengthening selfhood, and they, rather than intellectualism, uplift the human mind and convince it of spiritual reality. Speaking of the effect of Truth on the human body, Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "It imparts a healthy stimulus to the body, and regulates the system. It increases or diminishes the action, as the case may require, better than any drug, alterative, or tonic." Science and Health, p. 420;

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