COMPASSION has a liberating and healing effect when accompanied by the spiritual understanding of the real man's oneness with God, infinite good, as His reflection. To have Christlike compassion for an individual when we see him victimized by false beliefs of sickness, sin, or lack is to desire to free him from these illusions of mortal mind through the understanding of Christian Science. It may not always be our privilege to do this, but we can love as Christ Jesus loved and refuse to bear false witness against man, the child of God.
Christian Science is based on the premise of the allness of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of evil or matter. Man's real being as the perfect, whole, and beloved child of the loving, infinite Father-Mother, God, is spiritual, holy, complete. Man is always in the presence of God's all-providing, all-sustaining, all-harmonious care. Man is never a sick, poor, or degraded mortal. Therefore the healing work of a Christian Scientist does not recognize as real any quality or condition unlike good but rests upon the reality and presence of God's perfect creation, the universe, including man.
Christian Scientists do not sympathize with error of any kind, but they do have deep compassion for one who is seemingly under error's control. When we love enough to see another's faults or fears as only false beliefs about him and not part of his true nature, we can heal him. Mental, moral, and physical weaknesses and imperfections will then yield to divine Love's power as reflected and expressed by men.
