Article December 25, 1902 Issue

Prove all Things

Florence F. Fullerton

Lima (O.) Republican-Gazette

As in the science of mathematics, if we incorporate error or falsity into our statements we find error and falsity in the conclusion, so in our problem of life we must include in our premises only those things which we wish realized in our experience. Thus can we mould our thought and lives by having that mind which was also in Christ Jesus; and we need not doubt, nor fear to put in to the test, for St. Paul said, "Prove all things: hold fast that which is good," and Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." Thus are cause and effect found to be a scientific certainty in our Christian experience.

The Principle upon which Christian Science is based is without beginning and without end. Christ said, "Before Abraham was, I am." The Christian era was ushered in through the application of this Principle to the lives and affairs of men, even to the minutest detail. Christian Science is the further development of the practical, ameliorative. and beneficent influence of the Christ-Truth, to which Jesus referred when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." To what are we in bondage, unless to sin, with its resultant discords, disease, and death. Then to know the Truth of being, the facts of existence, is to bring freedom from this servitude. Blessed thought!

If life were dependent upon material conditions and beliefs, we might know much of Truth, and yet our conditions would not be bettered; but Jesus said, that to know God is life eternal. So we seek to know God, Truth, and conforming our thought and lives thereto, find the freedom of the Sons of God.

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