Article January 23, 1909 Issue

Christian Science is the effort to give back to the...

Frederick Dixon

Norwood (England) Review

Christian Science is the effort to give back to the world that supreme consciousness of God which made the first century of the Christian era the age of miracles. Now a miracle is that manifestation of the power of God which, though supremely natural to a mind conscious of His omnipresence, is mysteriously supernatural to a mind convinced of the reality of matter.

The word "reality" is used in Christian Science to describe all that is eternal and indestructible; in a word, God and the spiritual kingdom. It is used to separate the absolute from the relative, in the way, as one of the greatest scholars and churchmen of modern times has shown, John separated them in distinguishing "the truth" of Jesus from the mere "truth" of Pilate. It follows that no Christian Science "healer" could or would attempt to heal a condition that was real. What he does is to attempt to destroy the mere relative sense of what the patient considers the reality of sickness and sin, which is quite another thing. And if he succeeds in this, there comes to the patient some understanding of "the truth," or absolute truth, which was what Jesus referred to when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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