Proof of the Christ, Truth

ALBERT S. LOUER

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE enables mankind not only to understand the teachings of Christ Jesus about God, man, and the universe, but to prove them, thereby obeying the instructions of the Master to do the works he did. In order to do this, we must heed Mary Baker Eddy's words on page 392 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Stand porter at the door of thought." We do not half realize what a blessed, helpful message this is to all who accept and obey it. Standing porter at the door of thought is being on guard at our mental doors constantly, allowing only the good, the uplifting—the Godlike—to enter our consciousness, and barring out all that would disturb, annoy, or make us unhappy. If all were continually faithful porters at the door of thought, all would be ever usefully employed, aiding not only themselves, but others also.

Christ Jesus taught and proved sin, disease, death, lack, limitation, loss, to be untrue—unreal. He held to the truth of being that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," and "without him was not any thing made that was made." As there is not the slightest good in sin, disease, death, lack, or limitation, not one of these exists in reality. Merely saying this accomplishes little, however.

When any one of these errors suggests itself to us, we should declare and know its nothingness, its unreality, and above all refuse to allow fear of that unreality to enter our consciousness. Then we are proving the truth made clear by the Apostle James, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." When we accept and hold steadfastly to this fact, we allow nothing to enter our consciousness but that which is good. In other words, we accept only spiritual ideas, seeing all that is material as untrue—unreal. When these false beliefs would try to enter our consciousness, we treat them as Christ Jesus did, with prompt dismissal.

Someone may say, "It is easy enough to accept the truth, but I find it very difficult, if not impossible, to prove it." How can it seem more difficult to prove these statements to be true than to prove that twice two is four? The difficulty diminishes as we are obedient to our Leader's teachings. We must be faithful. We must allow only the good, the true, the real, the spiritual, to enter by our mental doors, and as we do this, we shall gain the solution to our problems. We cannot expect to solve a problem correctly if we are listening to error; but we need not continue doing so. We must turn to God and seek His guidance, listening for His voice and perfect direction. If we do this faithfully, allowing only the good, the pure, the spiritual, the perfect, the Godlike, to enter our thought, we shall soon find that we are actually demonstrating, or proving, the truth that makes free. Sin, disease, sorrow, pain, suffering, lack, limitation, yes, even death, will disappear, for not one of these possesses the slightest reality; and in their place will be found health, joy, freedom, abundance of good, continuous righteous activity, immortal life.

Is not the world suffering because it is accepting unreality as real? According to material sense, evil seems to be real, but there is no evil in divine reality. The Biblical teachings in their spiritual import, as illumined in Christian Science, enable one to understand that man, created by God in the image and likeness of God, is not a mortal, subject to destruction, but a spiritual idea, reflecting or expressing God. God's infinitely good creation is all that really exists. In the light of this glorious truth men learn that war, dictatorships, strife, injury, idleness and unemployment, sin, disease, and death are unreal; and this view of a warring, enslaved, crippled, sad, poverty-stricken universe will be seen as utterly false.

Accepting this glorious truth, we see real existence as altogether spiritual. Christian Science reveals God as immortal Life, Truth, Love, Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit—All-in-all; and His universe of spiritual ideas as forever at peace, forever good, perfect, expressing or reflecting our Father-Mother God. The spiritual universe including man has always been, is now, and will be forever at the standpoint of perfection. This is the truth of being.

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