Article September 29, 1986 Issue

Prayer can change the evidence

CAMILLE H. MacKUSICK

Can you really change evidence? And should you? It sounds like a sleight-of-hand trick, doesn't it? It may even seem dishonest, rather like tampering with courtroom evidence.

But in the healing practice of Christian Science, changing false evidence for true is not only possible, it is imperative. Mrs. Eddy explains in Rudimental Divine Science: "According to the evidence of the so-called physical senses, man is material, fallen, sick, depraved, mortal. Science and spiritual sense contradict this, and they afford the only true evidence of the being of God and man, the material evidence being wholly false." Rud., p. 7.

How, then, do we change the false evidence of discord, loss, or illness? Christian Science turns us to prayer just as Christ Jesus did. It teaches us to put full trust in the all-loving, all-knowing God. We learn the importance of earnest silent communion with God, and of shutting out the clamoring of the senses so that we can hear divine direction and know that God is ever near.

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