Editorial May 24, 1975 Issue

The Right Emphasis

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Until we achieve that clarity and depth of spiritual perception that enables us to completely and spontaneously shuck off beliefs in something other than God's spiritual reality, we need to have a more positive spiritual emphasis, to emphasize the spiritual truth more than the material appearance.

No matter what trouble seems to be facing us, the main problem is that the problem seems more real to us than the truth of being. As soon as the truth of being starts becoming more real to us than the trial, we are rapidly approaching a resolution. Mary Baker Eddy was a thoroughly experienced Christian Science practitioner. She tells us authoritatively, "When we come to have more faith in the truth of being than we have in error, more faith in Spirit than in matter, more faith in living than in dying, more faith in God than in man, then no material suppositions can prevent us from healing the sick and destroying error."^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 368;}

Emphasizing problems and trials can result in a buildup of frustration. It's not difficult to review our domestic affairs and world conditions and to see things in both spheres that are awaiting healing and adjustment. In the measure that we fasten on to those unresolved problems rather than emphasizing the scientific truth of being we will feel frustrated. And the world, even from a human point of view, will not look as well as it can.

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