Article November 20, 1909 Issue

Christian Scientists believe that all reasonable and just...

Alfred Farlow

Madison (Ind.) Courier

Christian Scientists believe that all reasonable and just things are possible to him who has unbounded faith in God. It is the teaching of Christian Science that all men and all things are in reality upheld by divine Mind, as the Scriptures teach in the text: "In him we live, and move, and have our being." To mortal vision it does not so appear. Material sense does not perceive the "unseen" power which creates and sustains the universe, but attributes the poise and motion of all things to forces apart from God.

When mortals shall have perfected their understanding of and reliance upon God as the only real means of support, there can be no injury to them. The psalmist said, "They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." Who shall thus be borne? Those who dwell "in the secret place of the most High," those who live in the realization of ever-present Spirit; secret so far as material sense is concerned, but revealed to spiritual consciousness.

Grounded upon the understanding that there is but one infinite Mind, neither Mrs. Eddy nor her students could ascribe omnipotence to human "will." While feats which involve astonishing manifestations of human will prove the general proposition of Christian Science, that even on the mortal plane all supposed causation is mental, such manifestation is wholly apart from the eternal fact of spiritual truth that God, the one infinite Mind, creates and upholds all things.

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