Article July 24, 1909 Issue

Christian Science, as taught and practised by Mrs. Eddy...

Judge L. N. Blydenburgh

New Haven (Conn.) Palladium

Christian Science, as taught and practised by Mrs. Eddy and her students who are faithful to her instruction, claims to teach mankind the way to gain salvation from sin and disease. It teaches, as Jesus taught, to love your neighbor as yourself. It teaches to avoid selfishness, envy, hatred, and malice. It holds that real reform is better promoted by love of good instilled into the hearts of men, than by the fear engendered by the possibility of punishment. It recognizes the necessity of a law of restraint and punishment, but it labors to destroy the desire to do evil. It works to promote a desire to do good for the sake of good. It seeks to teach that there is no real pleasure in evil, because the results of evil are always painful and harmful. It meets disease with the truth of the allness of God and the perfection of all that God creates. It regards disease as an imperfection, the result of imperfect understanding. It declares man to be immortal and spiritual, and asserts Mind to be the causative power of all things. In other words, it asserts the deminion of Mind—realizes God as infinite Mind and regards man as God's image, idea, and reflection. As no system that can demonstrate its truth and utility can be safely ignored, it claims that the works done in the cure of disease and the destruction of sin are the test of its truth and of its God-given mission to man.

If its claims are true, no manifested jealousy on the part of those who think its prosperity and increase in adherents will take from their following, can destroy it. No adverse criticism by those who see their professional success endangered will harm it. All who desire good to prevail will approve and accept it when they understand it. It may be said of Christian Science, in the language of Gamaliel concerning the teaching and work of the apostles, "For if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God."

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