Editorial July 27, 1974 Issue

Immediate Attention

Carl J. Welz

When an orchestra is rehearsing a Beethoven symphony, and the oboe plays a C sharp that should have been a C natural, what does the conductor do? Does he stop the orchestra and expound on the perfection of Beethoven's composition? No, he points out the error, gets the oboe player to correct his playing, and goes on with the music.

When a Christian Scientist is confronted with a sour note in his concept of Life, he does not evade the issue. He takes whatever steps he needs to take to eliminate it. If there is a suggestion of pain, of lack, of insecurity, of instinctive hate, of suppressed or unsuppressed lust, of conflict, of anything that does not rightly represent divine Life, he faces the suggestion immediately and eradicates it.

We are Christian Scientists in proportion to our understanding of and fidelity to divine Life. This Life, the only real Life, is God. Divine Life is the opposite of the belief in material life. Divine Life is expressed in God's own qualities. Man, Life's idea, manifests God's goodness, wholeness, perfection, purity, vitality, health. Evil, incompleteness, imperfection, impurity, debility, disease, are found only in the belief in material life. They are no part of the real man.

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