Article November 2, 1918 Issue

Students of Christian Science regard this teaching as the...

Albert F. Gilmore

The Far Rockaway (N. Y.) News

Students of Christian Science regard this teaching as the restoration of primitive religion as taught and practiced by Christ Jesus during the brief period of his earthly ministry. It is pure idealism based upon the allness of God, infinite Spirit, eternal and perfect Love, and a spiritual creation, His expression, equally perfect and eternal. Accepting as true the account of creation as it appears in the first chapter of Genesis, Christian Science recognizes God as the creator of man, God's expression, His image and likeness, as perfect as Himself, and incapable of disease, discord, and death. The material sense of man, the physical man,—mankind,—with all its sinful and sick beliefs, Christian Science regards as the Adam-man, the false concept, the story of whose creation appears in the second chapter of Genesis. Thus it will be seen that this teaching draws a very sharp distinction between the two concepts, accepting the former as the real and the latter as the unreal man,—a distinction which needs to be kept constantly in mind if one is to understand at all the logic of Mrs. Eddy's teaching.

Christian Science sets forth very definitely that sin and fear cause disease,—in fact, that they are the only causes,—and, accordingly, that sickness is destroyed, healed, by removing these causes; that is, by correcting the false concepts held in consciousness by the truth of God and the spiritual creation,—the truth which Jesus declared so emphatically "shall make you free." As a mathematician corrects the mistakes in his problem by applying the rule involved, so the Christian Science practitioner corrects the false beliefs about man, that he is sick and sinful, by applying the truth about him, that as the image and likeness of God he is incapable of any form of discord or death.

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