Article November 9, 1907 Issue

Christian Science urges to a full faith and dependence...

D. C. Pendery

American Israelite

Christian Science urges to a full faith and dependence on God for healing disease as well as sin, and in no way limits God's present availability, power, and willingness to help in every trouble. In claiming supreme power for God, it is only consistent to prove the infirmity of any lesser power. Christian Scientists do not attribute disease and suffering to God, and it is this important feature of Mrs. Eddy's teachings that the Science serves to elucidate and prove. It cannot be denied that "matter" is the foundation of sin, disease, and suffering. Christian Science explains "matter" to be a false concept of the material senses, on the same basis that, contrary to material evidence, the earth is not flat nor does the sun move. "Matter" has no inherent power and substance, and it has gained first place in human thought only because of ages of belief in it. The subject is too large to touch upon more than briefly here, but it may be seen that the object of Christian Science is to reach and destroy the primary cause and foundation of sin and disease. It is well known that other advanced and respected thinkers besides Mrs. Eddy have reached the same conclusions regarding "matter."

Christian Scientists believe that it was this great truth—the allness of God and powerlessness of adverse material conditions—which was the substance of the monotheism of the early Israelites. It healed and fed them and led them out of the wilderness. And this same practical truth was practised supremely by Jesus and is again seen to-day in the works of Christian Science. Truth is always the same under whatever name, and if the Jews of to-day are obeying implicitly the First Commandment and showing it by their fruits, they are practising the pure religion of their early ancestors and are not far from Christian Science. The Jew in Christian Science is satisfied with the explanation of the person, life, and mission of Christ Jesus, in that he was not God but was the highest manifestation of God's nature and the best Jew that ever trod this planet. The concord between the sayings and acts of Jesus and the Mosaic law are explained in Christian Science as confirming his declaration: "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

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