Article August 11, 1917 Issue

Christian Science is a religious system which by means of...

Marie Hartman—Holland

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Christian Science is a religious system which by means of the Bible unfolds God as the all-embracing Being, as eternal Life, absolute Truth, never failing and ever present Love, with whom all power rests. His laws establish His kingdom,—the government of good,—and cannot call into being in man aught but purity, peace, and harmony.

Learning thus to know God, He—Spirit, Mind—becomes more and more the great reality and actuality; and in thought and in deed man will gradually obey and serve God more than the illusions of unenlightened human thinking, or, as Mrs. Eddy says, the mortal mind. From ignorance as to what really is power, mankind have for ages submitted themselves to all sorts of beliefs and illusions which can be traced back to faith in a power and cause separate from God, and as a result of this error, a life in and of matter. Thus mankind have sanctioned these erroneous beliefs and have given them a power which otherwise they would not possess.

Christian Science calls attention to the fact that in many places in the Bible we read how a knowledge of God freed man from those false concepts and in so doing saved him from sin, sickness, and distress. In his words and works Jesus has so clearly revealed the Father that any one who tries to follow his teaching and to let that Mind be in him "which was also in Christ Jesus," can prove this in the healing of sin and sickness (not only of what usually are called mental diseases). As he is putting off the old man,—the wrong thinking,—the signs of his faith in and his knowledge of God will follow as the great Wayshower has promised. These signs, which are often called miracles, according to Christian Science are not supernatural, but divinely natural; they are no violation, but rather the confirmation of the highest laws.

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