Article January 15, 1921 Issue

Some Simple Verities

CHARLES A. PEARSON

To the consecrated student of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works it is quite apparent that the teachings of Christian Science coincide thoroughly with the simple instructions of Jesus. This, however, may not be quite so clear to the beginner. The Master, of whom Mrs. Eddy says, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" (Science and Health, p. 313), certainly was very practical in his application of his Science to each and every human problem which presented itself to him for solution. His understanding of God, which was his source of power, resulted in his application of the law of God. This law is not abstruse; indeed, its very simplicity is what seems to render it baffling. It is so simple that one can hardly believe that it will work and accomplish the desire of the suffering to be relieved of the burden of belief calling itself sin or sickness.

In many cases recorded in the Bible, Jesus made his applicants for healing do the very thing which material sense, or mortal mind, said could not be done. When physical sense declared that the man was blind, that Lazarus was dead, that the arm was withered, that the palsied could not move, Jesus reversed the report, overcame the sense testimony with the law of being, and the sufferers were healed. When the multitude were hungry he fed them. In short, he did the thing that was necessary at that particular moment to bring harmony or comfort to his friends. And this is what Christian Science does—it simply produces the right result in the right way.

Mrs. Eddy's statement, "Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action" (Science and Health, p. 393), is identical with the command of Jesus, "Stretch forth thy hand." But back of each statement must be the understanding of God as law or Principle. This law is ever present and ever active, and as we "stretch forth" or "take possession" we must know we are doing it in accord with this law. To the degree that the belief in evil is excluded, and the consciousness of good understood, harmony or healing will be apparent, and normal action will resume. Did the man with the withered hand stop to argue the matter, or state that he had been sick a long time and that his case was a chronic one, or that he would be satisfied with a slight improvement from day to day? Jesus knew the law, and knew it so perfectly that his understanding cleared away any doubt that might have existed in the thought of his patient. "If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine," says Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health, p. 365). The Scriptures declare that God is Love, and our Leader's writings make plain the meaning of that very short but powerful sentence. When the practitioner can realize the presence of God, Love, as simply and as fully as did Jesus, then shall be brought to pass another of his sayings, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

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