Article February 25, 1905 Issue

Science has been defined by an eminent lexicographer...

Richard P. Verrall

Elmira (N. Y.) Telegram

Science has been defined by an eminent lexicographer as "Understanding of truth." It will thus be seen that true Christianity and true Science are inseparably related. The conjunction of these two great elements has been clearly explained as follows: "The Hebrew Scriptures, culminating in the teachings of Jesus, reveal God, the eternal Mind or Spirit, as Truth and goodness. The world which He has made is, therefore, as His projected or externalized thought or idea, not only true, but also good, and man, who is His offspring, created in His image and likeness, is meant to reflect in himself the divine Life, Truth, and goodness. But as strictly as Mrs. Eddy interprets idealism to be Christian, she no less strictly interprets Christianity, as has been pointed out, to be scientific. Imbued with the modern sense of a vast, orderly system of nature, unfolding before us according to immutable, rational laws, she carries this scientific sense to the Gospel of Jesus and declares its underlying Principle to be as scientifically knowable as the 'Principia' of Newton. Redemption from all evil is as natural to man as gravitation is to nature; one is as immutable and exceptionless as the other, and we can rely upon it with perfect confidence."

Richard P. Verrall.
Elmira (N. Y.) Telegram.

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