While I was studying the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly recently, seeking some healing ideas to guide my prayer about a headache I was experiencing, the words “true facts” in the Christian Science textbook caught my attention. In discussing how to treat a fever, Mary Baker Eddy writes that “the efficient remedy is to destroy the patient’s false belief by both silently and audibly arguing the true facts in regard to harmonious being” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 376).
Honestly, it struck me as a little redundant to combine the words “true” and “facts.” But then a conversation with friends years earlier came to mind. One of them had related a pretty tall tale, then ended their fictional account with “It’s a fact.” Another friend had said, “No, facts are true.”
It occurred to me then that Mrs. Eddy was likely reminding readers that lots of discordant things and material-sense testimony are presented to us as facts. However, the bottom line is that if it’s not good, then it’s not from God, Truth, and is not a fact at all. “True facts” originate from God, Spirit, and are harmonious. I knew that because I express God, the only true facts of my being were directly expressive of what God, Spirit, is.
