Editorial April 30, 1979 Issue

The confidence we get from Science

Geoffrey J. Barratt

If I were asked, as someone who was not raised a Christian Scientist, what betterments I especially thank Christian Science for, more confidence would be one of them.

What we all need is not personality-based self-confidence that wavers like a reed in a stream, but a steady certainty about our purpose and living that is based on an understanding of spiritual reality. Without question Christian Science gives a solid sense of assurance built on a rock-fast base.

Under metaphysical examination, false, personal confidence is seen to rest on a mutable, mortal sense of being. It comes from testimony presented by the five senses. These misinformants suggest that man is as fragile as porcelain. On the other hand, spiritual sense—the faculty each of us includes and can employ to perceive all things from a spiritual basis—tells us that God is good, that He is everywhere, and that man expresses God's eternal substance. This surely is the basis for more assured and poised living.

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