Editorial August 7, 1971 Issue

Let's Help to Stop the Lying

Alan A. Aylwin

Christian Science is showing mankind that righteous thinking and living are intensely practical—that strictly principled motives and conduct ally us with God, the conscious, living, divine Principle of all creation. In other words, this Science Is teaching people that goodness lived brings their lives into direct contact with the health, harmony, and guidance of divine Mind.

It is vitally important to understand this fact and cherish it, because at no time in history has it been more needed. The Christian Science Monitor is doing much to leaven the thought of mankind with truth by presenting the news as carefully and accurately as it can and maintaining a high standard for its advertising columns. But some of the media confront us with so many half-truths or outright lies that we should be constantly on guard to defend our integrity. We can do this by spiritually understanding and persistently expressing the purity of man's real identity as the image and likeness of God, immaculate Truth.

A columnist in a prominent newspaper remarks that we learn to automatically discount the extravagant claims of many advertisers and the promises made by certain politicians during their election campaigns. And, unhappily, experience has taught us to be wary even of statements by apparently responsible officials at press conferences. The columnist writes, "Maybe we have become so accustomed to accepting mendacity as a normal condition of life that we assume it is natural for everybody to lie to us, even our best men."^{ The New York Times, March 11, 1971;}

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