Article December 27, 1913 Issue

Christian Science claims to be a scientific explanation of...

E. M. Ramsay—Inverness, Scotland

The Northern Chronicle

Christian Science claims to be a scientific explanation of the gospel teaching which enables the student to gain a much clearer conception of the nature of God, cause, and of man's true nature as God's child. It shows him that not only all the sin in the world, but also all the poverty, misery, suffering, and disease, are the direct result of weak, inaccurate, and sinful thoughts accepted. It teaches him to distinguish, with ever increasing accuracy, between right thoughts and wrong, and plainly proves that if he would be healthier and happier, he must think more truly, more justly, more honestly, must mainfest more of the God-qualities, becoming kinder, purer, and braver. Thus the student of Christian Science finds that impure, dishonest thoughts are more destructive to health than impure air or adulterated food, and be becomes conscious, as never before, of the hideous nature of sin. But while Christian Science shows him this, it does not leave him there. It reveals to him the power, the omnipotence of good, its nearness, naturalness, and availability, and shows him how to begin to be transformed through the renewing of the mind.

Throughout Mrs. Eddy's writings she upholds the highest standard of morality, insisting not only on the outward observance of the ten commandments, but on that obedience of the heart which is inclucated in the Sermon on the Mount. In many American prisons her books have been warmly welcomed by the authorities because of the good effect they have had on prisoners. Numbers have been lifted out of sin by their teachings, and enabled to lead an honest and useful life; but, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 107), "without a knowledge of his sins, and repentance so severe that it destroys them, no person is or can be a Christian Scientist."

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