Article July 20, 1912 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A WORLD RELIGION

WILLIAM D. MC CRACKAN, M.A.

A recent experience enabled the writer to see for himself that Christian Science is in truth a world religion. In all portions of the globe visited on a journey around the world he found the text-book of Christian Science interpreting the Bible to growing numbers, uncovering the falsities of belief in a mortal existence, establishing in human consciousness the reality of spiritual facts, stimulating righteousness or right thinking, cultivating peace and good will, laying the foundation for the brotherhood of man, and, through the renewing of the mind, wiping out sin and sorrow and healing the sick as in Bible times.

This growth must impress the world traveler as a striking sign of the times, as the reappearance of primitive apostolic Christianity. Christian Science now girdles the earth. Link has been welded to link until the chain has become a never-ending bond, uniting all nations and peoples. A glorious sense of brotherhood pervades the body of the faithful, fortified by the kindly and beneficent watchfulness of The Mother Church. Admitting and learning to obey only one God, one Life, using but one Bible, one text-book, and one Lesson-Sermon, recognizing but one Leader, Christian Scientists are in a position to follow Paul's advice and "be of one mind."

This unity of purpose and endeavor is so marked that the Christian Scientist everywhere finds himself quickly at home among those who are like-minded, though to human sense they may be strangers. He observes everywhere the same struggles, problems, difficulties, and delusions assailing the human consciousness. He sees recorded through Christian Science the same victories and solutions, the same conquests over sin, sickness, and death. The pretenses of mortal mind are similar the world over, at the antipodes, on the islands of the sea, at the equator, or in the frozen northlands. These pretenses may assume different disguises, but Christian Science uncovers them all for what they are, namely, nothingness. So in all latitudes, altitudes, and climes there is but one real Mind, one God, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent; one Father of us all, in whom "we live, and move, and have our being." Thus the experiences, trials, and tests of Christian Scientists are apt to be similar, although they may be living thousands of miles apart, separated by oceans and mountain ranges, differentiated according to the testimony of physical sense by the utmost diversity of race, education, environment, or speech. The world traveler finds this similarity of experience among students of Christian Science because as the divine Mind is one, so its supposed counterfeit also pretends to be one.

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