Article August 12, 1911 Issue

If Christianity is anything at all, it is the teaching of...

Frederick Dixon

Newcastle (Eng.) Illustrated Chronicle

If Christianity is anything at all, it is the teaching of absolute Truth; and if absolute Truth is not scientific, then there is no science in the world. This was so parent to a well-known thinker that he declared that if Christianity was not scientific, or if science was not Christian, then one or the other was unnecessary. Jesus taught that Christianity would show men the truth which would make them free. In this way he further proved that Christianity was scientific, for he demonstrated the fact of divine law by means of the miracle, and thus made the miracle the object-lesson or proof of the truth of his teaching, for it must be remembered that the word miracle translated has no supernatural meaning, but means simply an act of power or a proof.

These miracles were devoted to the overcoming of sin and to the healing of sickness; in short, to the destruction of evil of every sort. Had this evil been real, nothing could have destroyed it. That which is real is necessarily eternal, and that which is eternal is indestructible. That sickness and sin seem real to the human consciousness no Christian Scientist would deny, but there is a very great difference between a relative sense of reality and actual reality. "Sickness," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 460 of Science and Health, "is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

This right apprehension of the truth of being is comprised in the knowledge of the truth which Jesus said would make the world free. In the exact proportion in which a man acquires this knowledge of Truth, he acquires necessarily the Mind which was in Christ Jesus, and acquiring this knowledge he is necessarily able to demonstrate it, because this knowledge is scientific. "He that believeth on me," Jesus said, "the works that I do shall he do also," and in proof of this he overcame not only sin but sickness, and not only sickness but every form of evil; everything, in short, which is unlike God.

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