Article April 21, 1917 Issue

In the report of an interesting lecture entitled "Is Organized...

Charles W. J. Tennant

Dartmouth and South Hams (England) Chronicle

In the report of an interesting lecture entitled "Is Organized Christianity Failing?" the lecturer refers to Christian Science as one of the various fashionable religious fads, or short cuts to the answer to the riddle of life. It is quite plain that the answer to the riddle of life must be found in gaining a demonstrable knowledge of God. Now Mrs. Eddy discovered that God is divine Principle, and that divine laws are the laws of divine Principle. She also saw that the prophets, Jesus, his disciples, and the early Christian understood and obeyed these laws, with the result that the sick and the sinning were healed.

What are popularly known as miracles are really marvels, or wonderful acts brought about by the spiritual understanding of divine law. When Jesus said that if one had "faith as a grain of mustard seed" one would be able to remove mountains, he certainly meant that if one had ever so little spiritual understanding of divine law one would be able to apply this understanding and bring about results which would be marvelous or seemingly miraculous to those who did not understand the Principle of them. Mrs. Eddy gives a definition of miracle on page 591 of Science and Health as "that which is divinely natural, but must be learned humanly."

Christian Science is in no way a short cut to the solution of any problem, but is the Christianly scientific way. There is always one right way, which is God's way. This is the shortest way certainly, but not a short cut. Our critic quotes part of the "scientific statement of being," from page 468 of Science and Health, as follows: "Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual," and says, "This is Mrs. Eddy's philosophy in a nutshell." It will repay any one to think over this wonderful statement, for it certainly does put a lot in a nutshell. I do not suppose for a moment our critic would disagree with any part of it.

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