Article August 9, 1999 Issue

Are you a good lawyer for yourself?

By Jane Partis McCarty

No, I am not about to recommend that we all go to law school and become attorneys. But what would you think of a lawyer, defending a client who he knows is innocent, who then deserts his defense when the opposing counsel's evidence seems to prove the client is guilty? Would you hire such a lawyer? I don't think so.

Have you ever thought of yourself as a lawyer on your own behalf, defending your own true, innocent selfhood, made in God's image, from evidence that tells you otherwise? Well, you are a lawyer, in a sense, in your own thinking. Limitations, injustices, ill health, fear, lack, are a few of the false accusations that humanity suffers from. But you can defend yourself from these accusations. Christian Science releases the sufferer by setting the record straight.

Christ Jesus knew that God is a loving Father and that God cares for His creation. He saw man as God's idea, spiritual, innocent, and pure. He healed sickness and deformity of all kinds on that perfect premise. He knew that evil is a lie and tells lies. It is on the basis of these facts of God's goodness and man's likeness to God that we can protest pain and symptoms and diagnoses of diseases. Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health: "When the body is supposed to say, 'I am sick,' never plead guilty. Since matter cannot talk, it must be mortal mind which speaks; therefore meet the intimation with a protest. If you say, 'I am sick,' you plead guilty" (p. 391).

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