Article July 10, 1909 Issue

From the Christian Science view-point the Principle of...

John L. Rendall

Oskaloosa (Ia.) Herald

From the Christian Science view-point the Principle of true mental, spiritual, or Christian healing is God. This Principle is absolute; it is the same Principle that was understood and demonstrated by Christ Jesus and his disciples and apostles. It is exact, scientific, adequate, and sufficient to the needs of humanity. Inasmuch as God is the Principle of Christian Science, the healing work which Christian Science accomplishes is necessarily a spiritual and not a material process. It is the manifested activity of infinite Mind, finding its legitimate expression through spiritual law. There is nothing of the "carnal mind" or so-called "mortal mind" in it or of it. It repudiates the supposition of mind, intelligence, or power apart from God, and in this it is absolutely consistent with the teachings of Scripture. Christian Science presents the undivided garment of Truth. It is not dependent upon will-power, upon the uncertain and erroneous processes or vagaries of supposititious human mind forces, but its activities are the manifestation of the one infinite God, besides whom there is none else.

Christian Science "denies matter" in the same sense in which the Bible denies it, and in this denial there is no repudiation of reality, but a positive understanding and declaration of that which constitutes absolute reality. Jesus declared, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." St. Paul stated, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." St. Paul also says, "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God;" again, "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things."

The result of Christian Science, its effect upon the lives and characters of its adherents, its health-giving, peace-bestowing influence, is its sufficient justification with those who know what it has accomplished, and these results are permanent and preeminently satisfactory. Knowing the integrity of their motives and the purity of their desires, also being fully conscious of the intense practicability of Christian Science, its adherents rest in the assurance that is given in Jesus' words, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

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