Article September 24, 1910 Issue

Jesus plainly assured his followers, "He that believeth...

Herbert M. Beck

Monticello (Ark.) Advance

Jesus plainly assured his followers, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." He commanded them to heal the sick with as much evident sincerity as he gave that other command, "Preach the gospel." Jesus also said, "By their fruits ye shall know them;" and at the grave of Lazarus he proved by his works that the Father had sent him; to John he offered to prove himself the Son of God by no other evidence than a recounting of the blessings which followed his ministry.

Unnumbered people have been healed and are daily being healed by Christian Science, and this fact indeed proves that "God is not a sleeping Baal to whom we have to cry aloud," but is a "present help in trouble." One man healed is better than the unbelief and doubts of a thousand men. In almost every city in the world may be found many who have been healed,—some from sins of selfishness, intemperance, lust, etc., and others from so-called incurable diseases.

Christian Science knows and accepts one God and one Christ, and only one. It has but one Bible, using the same authorized version that others use. In Christian Science God is not conceived as a "blind impersonal force" as this minister seems to have believed, neither is the term "personal being" used by Christian Scientists as applied to Deity, but rather the term "infinite personality." God is not to be considered as an enlargement upon or as a superhuman man. In God there is "no variableness, neither shadow of turning;" no alternatives; His "yea" is "yea" and His "nay" is "nay." He is omnipotent and omnipresent. He rules the universe, and to Him there is no question of supremacy between Himself and evil,—the "spirit of Satan." To God there is no issue joined between Him and any other power, because He is "above all, and through all, and in you all." "Power belongeth unto God," even if the testimony must be brought "from afar," as in the case of Elihu. God, being infinite, cannot of course be defined; but He is referred to in Christian Science as "the great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence" (Science and Health, p. 587).

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