Healing February 10, 1973 Issue

[Ability to demonstrate Christian Science comes with study and practice of the truth taught by Christ Jesus and revealed in Science and Health. This series touches upon some ways in which this truth can be applied.]

Healing by understanding the universal nature of good

God, Spirit, Soul, is All-in-all. He is infinite good. Therefore good fills all space, constitutes all presence and power, is the only substance. Good is universal. There is no action, no consciousness, no reality but good. If we realize these spiritual facts, we'll never fear that we are shut off from good; for, being universal, good is available to all as the truth of being.

Christ Jesus attributed to God the good he expressed and demonstrated, when he said, "There is none good but one, that is, God."^{ Matt.19:17.} Jesus is our Way-shower. From him we learn that our strength in demonstrating the good that destroys evil springs from our identifying good with God's universal nature. It does not come from an isolated sense of personal goodness.

In Christian Science practice it is important that we identify ourselves and others with universal good and separate everyone from any identification with the general belief in universal evil, which manifests itself in sin, disease, and death. We must vigorously deny the claim of mortal mind to counterfeit the truth of one universal good with the suggestion of one universal evil. God's allness does not permit the possibility of an opposite to good.

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