Success in Christian Science is the result of unvarying insistence on spiritual facts and unvarying resistance to material fallacies. A dictionary describes "fallacious" as that which is deceptive and leads into error of judgment. Intelligent insistence and resistance are inspired and sustained by Spirit, God.
Are the facts upon which the Christian Scientist is required to insist based on the limited and discordant evidence of the five physical senses? They are not, for this evidence is fallacious. Facts, as revealed in Christian Science, relate entirely to Truth, to divine reality, and it is upon the presence and potency of spiritual facts and true thoughts that we are required to insist undeviatingly. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."
There is encouragement and comfort for all in Mary Baker Eddy's statement (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 187), "The primal facts of being are eternal; they are never extinguished in a night of discord."' Primal facts are spiritual, harmonious, inextinguishable, and out of reach of the arguments of mortal mind. Health, for instance, is an indestructible fact because health reflects Spirit and is one of the invariable gifts of God to man. Faithfully held to, this inspired affirmation of fact versus fallacy in regard to health redeems us from the belief of disease. The true concept of health brings healing with it, and establishes in our thought the permanency of health rightly understood and demonstrated.
