Article October 25, 1919 ISSUE

Christian Science teaches every student very early in his...

The Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science teaches every student very early in his experience that it is both important and necessary to translate the Bible into its spiritual or metaphysical meaning, and until we do this we fail to gain or demonstrate the vital healing power which its golden treasures disclose when revealed in their true light. It was the recognition of this great fact that enabled the apostle to the Gentiles to observe that "the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him," and then added, "Neither can he know them,"—that is subject them to scientific proof or demonstration,—"because they are spiritually discerned."

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science for this day and age, has pointed to this very truism throughout her writings, and, what is most important of all, has taught us how we can gain this demonstrable knowledge of Holy Writ. She says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 241): "Take away the spiritual signification of Scripture, and that compilation can do no more for mortals than can moonbeams to melt a river of ice," and adds most significantly, "The error of the ages is preaching without practice." Christ Jesus demonstrated the truth far more than he talked about it. His recorded sayings are very meager in number in comparison with the long list of his mighty works brought down to us through the gospels, and our attention is forcefully called to this by Mrs. Eddy, whose teachings have enabled us to comprehend that what Jesus said was merely the outcome of what he did.

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