Article October 3, 1908 Issue

THE UNITY OF SCIENCE

FRANK P. EBERMAN

As one advances in the thought of Christian Science, he becomes more and more impressed with a sense of enveloping, inclusive oneness, inexpressibly satisfying to human aspiration. The one demand we intuitively make on the truth is harmony. Any new proposition, before it may take a place in the sacred halls of demonstrated truth, must abide comparison with every other truth of the household. A tittle of disagreement disbars it. Disharmony is a stranger in the entire domain of Truth.

This intuitive demand for unity is common to the farmer aspiring to perfect his herds in conformity to a certain ideal, as well as to the realm of philosophic investigation which would discover the universal cosmic law and unfold the riddle of the ages. The pathos of the situation is felt when we consider the earnest men and women whose ceaseless labors in the fields of "natural" science have failed to place them in touch with the great life of humanity waiting without, imploring, patient, hoping against hope in the newest revelations of microscope, "culture," and scalpel. Sage and scientist, agreeing on the supreme importance of discovering this universal law of life, have pursued the elusive forms of matter from atom to ion and to filmy force, until the "baseless fabric" of this vision threatens to vanish and "leave not a rack behind."

To the Christian Scientist this concept of oneness, which has so cruelly coquetted with human longing despite the love-knots of centuries, comes quickly; and the Christ says, "My reward is with me." Says Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 467), "The first demand of this Science is, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me;'" and the Christian Scientist takes this as the lineal, literal, and blood-descended Word of God, traceable in the trial and triumph of every righteous man and woman from Genesis to his Leader. In the light which she has radiated he sees that this God is Spirit, Mind, freed of every animal taint. He has grasped the infinite thought, and the only condition of his advance to infinite possibilities is fidelity to his promise. Nothing but wrong motives on his own part can thwart him.

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