Article October 7, 1916 Issue

Grateful Tribute

MARY E. WHEATON

"WHAT is this key, and where can I find it? If there is a key to the Scriptures I want it." Thus inquired one who had evidently attended a Christian Science service for the first time, and there heard the announcement made that "correlative passages" would be read from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The thought of a key to the Scriptures had attracted this truth-seeker more than anything else at the service, and her inquiry reminded one who had heard it of the ever-increasing debt of gratitude which we as Christian Scientists owe our beloved Leader for unlocking the spiritual treasures of the Bible to this age.

It was not until the text-book of Christian Science was placed in the writer's hands by a loving friend that the spiritual meaning of the Bible began to unfold to her, and the understanding thus gained was seen to be of practical value in every-day life. This "Key to the Scriptures" reveals as basic truth the true concept of God and man. God is revealed as Mind, and this Mind is shown to be divine Principle. It therefore follows that man as God's idea is "not material; he is spiritual" (Science and Health, p. 468), since man is the image and likeness of his Maker. This same God is shown to be good, and thus evil is seen to be without anything to sustain it; merely a negation, nothingness.

Science and Health also teaches the allness of God, for on the page from which we have just quoted we read, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Other synonyms for God as found in this text-book are: Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, and Love. We are furthermore taught to think of things as thoughts, and to know that only good thoughts are real or true, and therefore that all evil in mortal consciousness is but a false belief which can be put out or destroyed.

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