Article September 27, 1913 Issue

What is Christian Science?...

The Daily Mirror

What is Christian Science? Who knows? The man in the street certainly does not. Half a dozen selected at random were asked the question by The Daily Mirror yesterday in Fleet street and the Strand, and in not a single instance was anything other than a blank stare given to the inquirer. Then four avowed Christian Scientists were asked: "What is Christian Science, and why do you believe in it?" One only—Frederick Dixon, a representative of the Christian Science movement in England—gave a reply:—

Christian Science healing is the attempt to make practical today the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, that those who believed in him would be able to repeat his miracles. The Greek words translated "miracle" mean either an act of power or a sign; and Christian Science teaches that, in the exact proportion in which any person understands the theology or teaching of Jesus, it can be demonstrated in practise. Christian Science practise is the attempt to demonstrate the fact that sickness is the result of thought, though the actual healing of sickness is only a very small part of the work of Christian Science.

The Christian Science practitioner endeavors to destroy the cause of disease by altering the thought of the patient from which the disease proceeds. Jesus said, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The word "repent" in the Greek text means, of course, a change of mind, and when a man changes his mind from a belief in the dominion of matter to an understanding of the dominion of divine Mind, he repents, and finds that the kingdom of heaven—the peace of God, that is to say, "which passeth all understanding"—is at hand. In doing this he learns the truth, the absolute spiritual fact, the knowledge of which makes him free by destroying the material ignorance which previously held him in bondage.

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