Article April 17, 1920 Issue

Christian Science is known particularly by its fruits

The Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science is known particularly by its fruits. Because, however, the effects of its practice are more apparent than the means used to produce them, Christian Science is popularly believed to be a system of treatment without medicine, quite regardless of the mental condition of the practitioner or the patient. Yet it is demonstrably true that disease is the result of thought and that it can only be healed by changing or eradicating the thought which causes it. In other words, disease, which is an effect, is the product of thought, which is cause; and this is equally true of overt sin, for disease is sin, and sin is disease, whichever way you want to look at it. Hence it follows, since effect cannot be separated from its cause, if you are going to heal disease you must first remove the thought which causes it.

To any one who seriously contemplates Christian Science healing it must be evident that it is holy work and rests upon something higher than the human mind. It is the human mind which seems to be capable of entertaining thoughts whose externalization is sin, sickness, and death, and it is from these very effects that this same mind seeks to be saved. Naturally, then, it turns to something beyond and above itself and finds surcease from its troubles in the realization of the existence of infinite intelligence, incapable of entertaining thoughts which can result in evil. This infinite intelligence is God, or Mind, the Mind which Paul says "was also in Christ Jesus." And it is in the proportion that those who practice Christian Science are conscious of the divine Mind that healing is experienced for themselves and others.

Now it must not be supposed for a single moment that mortals can be healed of their ailments while they believe sickness to be a reality or that it is part of the divine plan. If disease were a part of the divine plan it would be as eternal as God, for creator and creation, Mind and its manifestation, are coexistent and coeternal. If disease were a reality it would be true, and if true, it would be a part of Truth and therefore a part of God, for God is Truth. Christian Science does not teach that God or His creation can be destroyed or that anything which is true can ever be changed. But it does teach that what seems to be, yet is no part of the divine plan, can be proved to be what it is—a false supposition of the human mind, which has no place in the spiritual creation, government, or economy.

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