Article July 20, 1907 Issue

THE GOOD CHEER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

W. D. MC CRACKAN, M. A.

Christian Science prepares a bountiful table for those hungering and thirsting after righteousness. It satisfies them with good things and makes provision for every contingency. In the modern world in which it has appeared, it is establishing the divine right of men and women to discard evil and magnify good, to be reformers of themselves and of others, and to be happy, joyous, and well while engaged in this work. It is illustrating to all who are willing to learn, how best to help the poor (those who are receptive) without pauperizing them, without making them dependent or incapacitating them for self-government and self-control. It is proving that to become spiritually minded is to grow healthy in body as well as mind. It enables sin-sick suffers to become once more as little children; it teaches the prayer of true faith, gives the understanding of man's dominion over the whole earth, and reinstates practical, everyday, operative Christianity, as it was set forth by Jesus and his early followers.

The way of Christian Science is the way of primitive Christianity. Jesus explained it centuries ago, when he said, speaking for the Christ which was his divinity, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," meaning that his understanding or Science of God was the way. His own followers had much difficulty in comprehending the purport and import of his words until they learned to do the works which he commanded them. Later, scholastic theology, forgetting to do the works, shrouded the great Master's words in mysticism, so that their true meaning had to be rediscovered in our day through Christian Science, in order that these very words might have the "signs following."

This Science of Christ points unremittingly to the necessary practice, and not merely to the profession of Christianity. The real story of Christian Science is being told by its fruits,—at the Wednesday evening meetings, in the testimonies to be found in our various periodicals and pamphlets, and, as a more permanent record, it appears in the chapter on "Fruitage" in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, as well as in the testimonies added to her "Miscellaneous Writings." And what a story it is! How crowded with hope and love, with the evidence of God's unfailing goodness in every hour of trial. Is it any wonder that grateful recipients of its ministrations in all quarters of the globe rejoice at every proper opportunity of commending it to those in need of help. It comes as the gospel of good health as well as good morals; it furnishes a normal and natural impetus to good deeds, and explains the method by which whoever will may do useful work in the world. It is no temporary makeshift for extraordinary occasions, but is being used daily by practical, level-headed people in overcoming the humdrum difficulties of mortal existence as well as in meeting the rarer crises of sin and sickness.

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