Article August 12, 1911 Issue

If there is one thing that Christian Science teaches more...

Algernon Hervey Bathurst—London, Eng.

Brixton and Lambeth Gazette

If there is one thing that Christian Science teaches more emphatically than anything else, it is the futility of attempting to rely on personality, or the control of one human mind over another. Indeed, such practice is the very antithesis of Christian Science, for to trust in the human, material, or mortal mind is to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since it is the human mind alone that believes in the power of both good and evil, believes in a perpetual warfare going on between the two, giving as much, and frequently more, power to evil than to good.

The great message that Mrs. Eddy has given to the world in Christian Science is the message given by Jesus the Christ two thousand years ago, that "evil is not power" (Science and Health, p. 192). Christ Jesus and his disciples proved this, the latter because they had understood the teachings of the Galilean Prophet, and had realized that when he healed the sick, reformed the sinner, raised the dead, he did so not because he was changing what actually was,—that is, what was God-given, or part of the perfect creation of God,—but because he had come, as he said, not to destroy but to fulfil God's law.

Jesus proved two thousand years ago that Christianity was practical, scientific, by demonstrating the truth of what he taught. Those same teachings are as practical today as when they were first uttered to the disciples and multitudes in Galilee and Judea, and the mountains of physical deformity, disease, and discord are being removed today as they were during the first three hundred years of the Christian era, in the exact proportion that the teachings of Christian Science are understood. None of these things are accomplished by the endeavor of one person to control the mind of another, but they are accomplished by the willingness of the individual to become "as a little child," and to refuse to believe that God, whom all Christians agree in describing as infinite, omnipotent, and omnipresent, could possibly do that which even no human parent would be found guilty of, namely, permitting his children to suffer or be subject to misery of any kind.

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