Article October 16, 1909 Issue

GLEANINGS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

NIELS PEDERSEN.

[A year ago I heard a lecture on Christian Science, and was convinced that it is the truth. I came from Denmark, a young man, twenty-two years ago, and learned to speak English fairly well, but before I became interested in Christian Science I could not correspond in English. Through the study of this truth I have begun to realize that there is only one intelligence, and that this is God; that God is everywhere present, and as man is made in His image, this divine intelligence is ours to reflect. This is my first attempt to write an article in English, and words cannot express my gratitude to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for this awakening to man's true sonship.]

Through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mrs. Eddy, the Bible has become clearer to me, and I stumble no longer in darkness. Christian Science stands for love and truth. It would not be Christian if it did not express love, and it would not be scientific if it were not the truth. When we begin to live up to its teachings, and to reflect divine Truth and Love, we can demonstrate this Science, and it never fails when we follow its rules. We sometimes fail to reflect Truth and Love; then the failure is not with Science, but with us. Love is the whole commandment to man. God is Love. How can we possibly conceive or think of God as anything less than Love? God is Mind, and man as the reflection of God must reflect the Mind that is God.

Christian Science shows us very clearly what love stands for. In Science and Health, page 256, we read, "Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man." As we rise above the human sense of love into the spiritual sense of Life and Love, the true reflection of God, which is the new birth, takes place. Jesus said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Then we begin to see our brother in the true light, and no matter what mortal man may say or do against us, we do not lay it to his charge, for we understand that he does not know what he does or says, as he is still asleep in the material dream, thinking that life is in matter and that death is as real as life. He has a selfish sense which loves one and hates another, and which sees his own gain in another's loss.

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