Article March 27, 1909 Issue

There can be but one "school of Christian Science."...

J. V. Dittemore—New York.

There can be but one "school of Christian Science." Mrs. Eddy's life-work has been to elucidate divine metaphysics, to reduce to a comprehensive science the spiritual rules or laws of God, the creative and governing Principle of the universe. Correct and demonstrable knowledge of Deity must be scientific in the highest sense, and must be "without variableness, neither shadow of turning." Hence there can be no differing "schools" of Christian Science, for in all scientific demonstration the slightest variation from the established rule must lead to erroneous conclusions and results.

In Christian Science it is proven that all cause and effect are mental. Hence the application and practice of Christian Science are at all times metaphysical—above the physical. If Christian Science is true in part it is all true, for its logic is faultless and its conclusions rest absolutely on the basis of the omnipotence of Mind and the impotence of all that would oppose Mind. The world resents innovation. All great revolutions in human thought, regardless of their value to humanity, have passed through stages of bitter opposition and condemnation before the beneficence of their mission has been perceived or acknowledged. The progress of the Christian Science movement is no exception to this rule.

The world may refuse to believe that matter is non-intelligent or that drugs have no power apart from the patient's faith in them and the universal belief in their potency. It is slow to acknowledge that all disease is of mental procurement and that medical practice is not a science, but simply the application of a system of theories, speculative and conjectural, founded on the fluctuating beliefs of the minds of mortals and incapable of exact or scientific demonstration. It is a strange characteristic of the human mind that mortals may see thousands of instances of regeneration and healing through Christian Science, and so easily prove for themselves the basis of its accomplishments, but still be willing to accept as true the contradictory charges of some whose professional interests have been considered in jeopardy and the success of whose criticisms and condemnations of the subject can only be in proportion to the world's willingness to believe without investigation. No comparison can justly be made between the practice of Christian Science and of material methods of healing without taking into consideration the successes of each as well as their failures.

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