Editorial February 13, 1978 Issue

An inquirer asks—

Naomi Price

"When a Christian Scientist is ill he sometimes insists he is perfectly strong and healthy—even though it is obvious that he is not. Why does he do that?" Such a question is not infrequently asked. No malice is implied; just perplexity. And the enigma can be satisfactorily explained to inquirers who are willing to bring spiritual sense to bear on the discussion.

Spiritual sense, or spiritual intelligence, is the key to the practice of Christian Science healing. One has to be prepared to look beyond the material picture presented to the physical senses and to recognize the actual facts of being as they are created by God, Spirit—facts that are established through divine law. Without spiritual sense and the willingness to trust it, one cannot understand Christian Science and credit its conclusions.

Yet this should not be hard. The schoolteacher who looks over the shoulder of a child and sees he has written "Christopher Columbus" as the answer to "Who was the first man to walk on the moon?" will know at once that this is not correct. Whether the false answer is penciled in a child's notebook or printed in ten-foot black letters as graffiti on a wall, the teacher will be unimpressed by the mistake and his faith in the facts unshaken. Looking beyond the evidence presented to his eyes, he can still assure the uninformed that the correct answer is Neil Armstrong.

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