Article October 12, 1912 Issue

That Christian Science interprets the gospel teaching in...

E. M. Ramsay

Aberdeen (Scot.) Free Press

That Christian Science interprets the gospel teaching in a manner new to the thought of this age, we do not for a moment deny. The Master plainly stated that in the years to come the world would receive fresh light on the momentous subjects on which he had spoken, and that this fuller light was not to supersede but to explain his words. "I have yet many things to say unto you," he told them, "but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: ... he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."

The wonderful discoveries of the present age which have revolutionized to a great extent the conditions of modern life, are rightly connected with the names of the men on whose thought these discoveries dawned, but as Bell, Kelvin, Edison, and Marconi did not create the forces they have pressed into the service of man, so Mrs. Eddy did not create Christian Science; she perceived something in the Saviour's teachings which the ages preceding her had failed to perceive. Thus it has come about that those who are willing to be instructed may know things of which the sages of the past were ignorant, that the man of today may get a grasp of the fundamental facts of life as never before, and may find this new, deeper understanding express itself outwardaly in a wonderful improvement in health and happiness, and in a greatly extended capacity to be of service to others.

Before I became a student of Christian Science, I was convinced that there were two lives, a spiritual and a physical, governed by laws in many respects antagonistic to one another, and it was a constant source of difficulty to know how far one could disregard the laws of bodily health in order to conform to the requirements of the spiritual life. The Bible, however, gives no indication of such a divided government of the world, and the explanation of Christian Science shows that there is a method of thinking, wholly Christian and equally beneficial to what we are accustomed to call soul and body, which may now be employed by man.

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