Editorial April 5, 1975 Issue

A Change of Evidence

Carl J. Welz

When seeking healing of a disease, we look for evidence of improvement. Christian Science denies the disease as unreal because it is not of God, and God, good, is All. True evidence is God's own manifestation of Himself. It is entirely spiritual.

One practicing Christian Science to heal himself or others begins with God and sifts the evidence before him to see what is true and what is false. Pain, congestion, debility, malfunction, are invalid evidence, as are such mental conditions as selfishness, confusion, fear, resentment. But is the absence of these physical or mental conditions true evidence?

Usually we feel grateful when disease symptoms leave us or when we see unwholesome character traits disappear. Sometimes we are sure that the trait was the cause of the symptom and that the healing was simply a matter of eliminating the cause. But have we yet gained true evidence? Healing without it does not last. And there comes a point in each one's experience in applying Christian Science when healing does not come until he stops trusting in or being influenced by anything but spiritual evidence.

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