Article August 27, 1910 Issue

A Christian Scientist is never a physical diagnostician:...

James D. Sherwood

El Paso (Tex.) Herald

A Christian Scientist is never a physical diagnostician; he does not consult matter for a knowledge of man. The Christian Scientist accepts the statement made in the Bible that God is Spirit and is infinite; that He is All, and that man was made in God's image and likeness. The likeness of Spirit is spiritual, it is not matter; therefore the Christian Scientist understands that man is spiritual, and never material.

Disease, as an experience of mortal man, has its origin in the belief that life and intelligence exist in matter. This belief was the Adam-error which divine wisdom condemned, saying, "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." The Christian Science practitioner makes his investigations along the lines of mental phenomena, and traces every effect to mental causation. He understands that the mind governs the body absolutely, and thus he comprehends what the wise man meant when he said of man that "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Every individual who is engaged in relieving the sufferings of humanity should be permitted to pursue the path he believes to be right and best. A Christian Scientist asks to be permitted to enjoy the same privilege. His method, however, is purely metaphysical. He does not adulterate Christian Science practice by recourse to matter, either in diagnosis or in remedy. He understands the divine Mind to be All, and All-in-all; and, in the language of Joshua, he says to all those who oppose him with the methods of material systems: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

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