Article April 3, 1920 Issue

On page 111 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"...

The Christian Science Monitor

On page 111 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy defines the term demonstration as it is used in Christian Science. Beginning at the eleventh line of the page she writes: "The Principle of divine metaphysics is God; the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error; its rules demonstrate its Science." It is a sentence brimful of meaning and of tremendous import to the human race, dipping deep beneath the superficial aspects of human experience and inviting to the consideration of absolute spiritual fact.

In investigating demonstration several questions immediately arise, such as, What has to be demonstrated? and, Over what has the demonstration to be made? These questions must be considered from the standpoint of absolute metaphysics. The divine and the human seem to present themselves; when in fact there is nothing but the divine, and, as Christian Science is continually pointing out, the regeneration of the individual from disease or sin consists in the overcoming of the human sense of things with all its erroneous and limited material beliefs, through the realization of the spiritual sense of reality.

What, then, has to be demonstrated? Divine Principle,—and divine Principle is God, infinite Mind, omnipresent Truth, omnipotent Spirit. Mrs. Eddy discovered that divine Principle exists without an opposite; and upon her understanding of this fundamental spiritual truth the utterly fallacious nature of matter and all evil was exposed to her. She saw the belief of evil, that which was torturing humanity and binding it in the fetters of disease and sin, to be a lie against the truth of the allness of Principle; and because it is a lie, it has therefore no real existence. Thus Mrs. Eddy discovered and announced to the world the fact that, since Principle is infinite, evil is in reality nothing. The discovery was neither speculative nor theoretical. Divine Principle was recognized to be All-in-all, existing eternally as the one and only cause, and manifesting itself in the universe of perfect, spiritual ideas. And not only did Mrs. Eddy state the truth about the allness and perfection of Principle and the unreality of evil, but she demonstrated the truth when this spiritual illumination instantaneously healed her of a diseased bodily condition which had been pronounced incurable. And then she proceeded to heal others from maladies of all kinds.

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