Article July 24, 1909 Issue

Christian Science insists on obedience to the Pauline advice,...

W. J. Bonnin

Blackpool (Eng.) Gazette-News

Christian Science insists on obedience to the Pauline advice, "Prove all things." Christianity to be Christianity, and not a mere placid acceptance of historical record, must submit to the test its Founder laid down. "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you;" "These signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

So far from "denying the tenets of Christianity," Christian Science, by teaching men to discriminate between the seeming or sense realities and the true or spiritual realities, to "look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen," is leading men to see and to prove that in the measure that the spiritual truth of the Bible is comprehended, a Christian life which will comply with the Master's test may be lived today, every whit as well as in those early days before spiritual truth had become obscured by human creeds and dogma. And this comprehension is the understanding that is "the well-spring of life," the Mind of Christ. Christian Scientists learn in their study of Christian Science, or in other words as they grow in understanding, that only as they cease to worship the golden calf, materialism, and realize the omnipotence of divine Love, have they strength to overcome and nullify the supposititious power of sin and sickness.

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