Article April 3, 1909 Issue

The logic of Christian Science is the logic enforced...

Algernon Hervey-Bathurst—England.

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The logic of Christian Science is the logic enforced by the greatest metaphysician the world has ever known, logic so clear that the humblest fisher-folk, perhaps the most uneducated men of their day, were able to accept it without any difficulty. That same "mode of arguing," to use one of the definitions of "logic," is the mode employed by Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and by all students of Christian Science. On what did the great Master base his teachings? In reply to the scribe who asked. "Which is the first commandment of all?" Jesus replied, "The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." Now the teachings of Christian Science are based on the First Commandment, and in this connection Mrs. Eddy has said, on page 340 of Science and Health: "The First Commendment is my favorite text. It demonstrates Christian Science." Starting, therefore, from the premise of "one God, or good," whom, as Jesus declared, to know aright is eternal life, the logic of Christian Science can hardly be termed "contemptible," if it leads to the conclusion that there is in reality no power but that which is of God or good. To the extent that this is understood or demonstrated, to that extent is evil proved to be unreal, be it in the form of sin or of sickness, for there is no evil in good.

There is never the slightest doubt in the mind of any student of Christian Science as to the soundness of its logic, because, just so soon as he has grasped it, even in a small degree, he begins to see his way out of the thraldom of sin, sickness, and discord. It is indeed true that to the "wisdom of the wise" these things are just as much "foolishness" today as in the days when the apostle, writing to the church at Corinth, told them that "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." True it is that "the attitude of thought and feeling which it [the logic of Christian Science] represents is worthy of much consideration," for it is just because the logic of Christian Science is faultless that the message of freedom and joy can be given with such authority to the sick and suffering.

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