Editorial August 31, 1912 Issue

"IF IT BE OF GOD.'

ARCHIBALD MCLELLAN

Thanks to the wide-spread publicity which is today accorded to Christian Science, both by its friends and quite unintentionally by its opponents, it is only occasionally that this practical and demonstrable religion is mistakenly denominated as "neither Christian nor scientific." But he who has proved for himself the power of Truth to heal from every discordant condition, whether of body or mind, is undisturbed by these fallacious assertions. Like the erstwhile blind man, there is one thing he knows for a certainty, that whereas he was sick, now through Christ, Truth, he is well. Such evidence is not easily refuted, and it links the truth discovered by Mrs. Eddy irrevocably with the primitive Christianity taught by Jesus and the apostles.

"Christianity," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 134 of Science and Health, "as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick." Jesus taught a practical gospel, and he demonstrated its truth, proved his propositions, by such marvelous works as could only be wrought by the power of God. That Christian Science is a revival of the Christianity taught by the Master, its followers are proving in daily increasing measure, for they are learning that in proportion as they attain the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," in that degree do they approach the perfection which is of the Father and become "every whit whole."

One cannot but be impressed, therefore, in reading the testimonies of healing through Christian Science which appear in our periodicals,—an open book in which he who will may read,—with the earnestness of the writers in giving credit to this teaching for the moral and spiritual awakening that has come to them along with the physical healing. Yet in doing this they do not claim to have reached perfection, but only to have caught a glimpse of the possibilities of that oneness with the Father which is not only man's birthright, but also the only reality of existence. They find that this new-old faith demands a daily and hourly exemplification of that acme of ethics, the sermon on the mount; that it is not a religion to be donned with their mount; that it is not a religion to be donned with their Sunday apparel and as carefully laid aside when the day is over, but a vital, energizing truth which governs and directs in all the affairs of life.

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