Editorial February 16, 1981 Issue

Text and context—both healing

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

Like a solitaire, a particular statement of spiritual truth stands out in certain circumstances as a priceless jewel. We may not see its setting, but it has one. Moreover, it is inseparable from the entire fabric of divine scientific knowledge. It is part of the whole texture of Truth.

Truth is understood in Christian Science to be God, and as the Psalmist sang in praise of God, "His understanding is infinite." Ps. 147:5. Because Truth is infinite, it is all. There cannot be infinity and something else.

In the very first sentence of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy speaks of "the sustaining infinite"; she enables us to conclude that every statement of infinite Truth must of necessity sustain and support every other statement; it cannot negate and tear down. "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," Science and Health, p. vii. she assures us. And pages later she concludes her Preface thus: "In the spirit of Christ's charity,—as one who 'hopeth all things, endureth all things,' and is joyful to bear consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick,—she commits these pages to honest seekers for Truth." Ibid., p. xii.

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