Article August 10, 1940 Issue

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Early in the history of Christian teaching, division and strife arose between Christians because one said, "I am of Paul," while another said. "I am of Apollos." Paul deprecated such conduct; so, probably, did Apollos. Paul said, "Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?" (See I Corinthians 3:3-9, 21-23.)

In recent history, some Christian Scientists have had occasion to guard against the same trait of human nature. Some of them have spoken as though Christian Science could be divided by the names of particular teachers and parts of its teaching could be identified in this way. Such less-than-careful speaking is even more harmful now than it was in the first century, because communication is faster and spreads farther now than then.

Christian Science is neither divided nor divisible. For its teaching and healing there is only one method or system. This is the one which is set forth in the writings of the Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. Every authorized and loyal teacher of Christian Science aims to teach this one method or system faithfully, to the exclusion of anything different or peculiar to himself.

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