Article July 17, 1909 Issue

The Master said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto...

Algernon Hervey-Bathurst

Richmond and Twickenham (Eng.) Times.

The Master said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." A spiritual and scientific understanding of the Master's teachings was demonstrated by healing the sick, reforming the sinner, raising the dead, nineteen hundred years ago, showing that the means of salvation from the thraldom of evil was then at hand. That same salvation, or Saviour, is at hand today. We have all had our Bibles, and possibly studied them for years; but only since Science and Health, frequently termed the Christian Scientists' commentary on the Bible, was given to the world, have we been able to realize that it is the privilege and duty of every disciple of Jesus the Christ for all time to obey his commands, or preach the word with "signs following."

Christian Scientists profess to have understood and demonstrated the teachings of Christian Science in a measure only, and they know that the day must come when not only will the "works" of the Master be done, but, in fulfilment of his words, the "greater works" as well. To quote cases of what the world has called "failures" of Christian Science is not argument. Materia medica is not infallible; but it would be neither Christian nor in keeping with the ordinary courtesies of life to condemn or malign those whose motive is to free humanity from suffering and pain. Christian Science has healed, and is healing, all kinds of diseases, organic as well as functional, and, above all, it is reforming the sinner.

No one is asked to study Christian Science, but so long as the sick are healed and the sinful reformed through its teachings, so long as men and women find in it the comfort they have failed to find elsewhere, so long as they learn through its teachings that God is at hand and "not a God afar off," just so long will they seek its support and protection, and those who seek it will not seek in vain.

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