Article August 25, 1917 Issue

When one attempts to explain any teaching it is always...

W. Stuart Booth—Ft. Collins, Col.

Larimer County Democrat

When one attempts to explain any teaching it is always well to make sure that the correct understanding has first been gained; otherwise one is quite liable to be misled into making erroneous statements, as was done in two articles dealing with Christian Science which appeared in a recent issue of the Democrat.

That Christ Jesus was a scientific Christian cannot be denied, for by being a perfect Christian he was absolutely scientific, because he possessed and acted in accord with the exact knowledge of God and His immutable laws of perfection and harmony. This resulted in the destruction by him of imperfection, disease, sin, discords of every sort, and even of death, designated by Paul as the "last enemy" to be destroyed. A most explicit definition of a Christian and of said, scientific practice was given by Jesus when he said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." No less plain is his promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." It is interesting here to note that Webster's dictionery, in defining Christian Science, states that it teaches "that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing." From this it will be seen that it is not a mere "belief in Christianity that produces scientific results," but rather the scientific or exact knowledge of God, infinite Truth, which is gained only as Paul's injuncion to "let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," is obeyed.

Surely this is not "oriental occultism," the power of mind over matter, nor the action of the human will, all of which are foreign to Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy in writing of these notions, which are sometimes confused with Christian Science by the uninformed, says on page 185 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that such theories have no relationship to Christian Science, which rests on the conception of God as the only Life, substance, and intelligence, and excludes the human mind as a spiritual factor in the healing work."

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