Shearing or seeing?

STEPHEN FRASER

Many students of Christian Science have an unselfish desire to share it with others. However, they must watch lest they be fooled into accepting a standpoint foreign to this Science: the standpoint that there really exists out there a world of persons hungry for the truth they don't have. This would bring Christian Science down to the level of mortal thinking.

The Science of Christ is unique in maintaining that man is God's idea and so already reflects the truth; that perfection is the established fact; and that God, Truth, is All. Creation, as the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings reveal, is already complete, entire, wholly good, and "nothing can be put to it." ^{Eccl. 3:14;}

As Christian Scientists see this fact, they can help demonstrate it for mankind. This is not evangelism in the old sense, but the Science of seeing universal perfection already established. The method of demonstrating this Science is clearly set forth in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.

The concept of sharing does not necessarily include seeing this universal perfection. The very words "to share" indicate one who has and one who hasn't. In fact, the verb comes from a word meaning "to cut, to shear." Let's not shear!

The work of Christian Scientists certainly isn't to try to divide the truth and distribute pieces of it to others but rather to see it as one whole. As Mrs. Eddy says in explaining how she named the periodicals, "...the next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent." ^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.} As we work, mankind's vision of Truth must grow and grow in ever-expanding unity and range. One infinite Truth, infinitely expressed, perfectly maintained, joyfully acknowledged!

No longer seeking to share by shearing but to see Truth's infinity releases the pressure of false responsibility and the press of time. As creation is already complete and we can demonstrate that fact now, we see there is no need to race the clock. This makes easier the outgrowing of medical, psychological, false theological, and all other material thought systems accepted as true by mankind.

Infinite Truth rests in the stillness and serenity of perfection, undisturbed by what material sense would say. Universal consciousness of Truth isn't merely possible, it is inevitable, because in reality that is what's presently true.

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