Article May 27, 1911 Issue

Christian Science stands for knowledge of God, and it...

William J. Bonnin

Birkenhead and Cheshire (Eng.) Advertiser

Christian Science stands for knowledge of God, and it declares that such knowledge is the only true knowledge or science; and, further, that it is a demonstrable science. As soon as one lays hold of the hem of the raiment of this Christ-knowledge, an insight into the meaning of life is gained beyond all the biological research of the ages. And what was it but this knowledge that the Founder of Christianity sought to instil into his followers? "This," he said, in perhaps the most sublime chapter in the whole Bible, "is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." What was it but this knowledge of true life that enabled him to heal all manner of disease? What but this knowledge constituted the mind that was in Christ Jesus which Paul enjoined the Christians at Philippi to strive for? And what but this knowledge could have been referred to by Christ Jesus when he instituted once and forever the test of the true follower of his teaching, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also"?

Christian Science declares that the only true or scientific healing is the healing that Jesus practised and commanded his followers to practise. It is the healing of sin and sickness and all that is unlike God by the knowledge of the truth that the omnipresent God is good; it is the fulfilling of the promise, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." It is idle, almost childish, for any scoffing critic to ask a Christian Scientist to perform some wonder to order; such a person is in danger of being numbered of that generation which asks for a sign. And it is similarly idle to attempt to scare people by a lurid picturing of the peril awaiting mankind when deprived of iodides and bromides and amyl nitrites. These things were not yesterday, and will not be tomorrow. They represent merely the constantly shifting human attempt to find power and salvation in matter instead of in Spirit, and their only efficacy is derived from the supposed power that human belief can invest them with.

Christian Science has come to prove that evil has no power or real existence, since all is good. However hard this may be for the unsympathetic to accept, its reasonableness and certainty unfold themselves to the honest student of Christian Science in a joyous revelation, and he begins to prove for himself the truth of the teaching by a gradual or immediate release from the bondage of evil. The number of people in all parts of the world that have thus proved for themselves the truth of Christian Science is increasing day by day, and they are the people who can speak with authority on the subject, and who, week by week, testify in their thousands to its healing and uplifting power.

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