Article December 2, 1922 Issue

There is nothing spurious about Christian Science....

Charles W. J. Tennant, Committee on Publication for London, England,

London Pall Mall and Globe

There is nothing spurious about Christian Science. It is as demonstrable as mathematics; for it is based on divine Principle, and "its rules demonstrate its Science," as we read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 111). Would our critic question for a moment the healing of Christ Jesus and his followers? Surely he used the method which God, his Father, intended him to use, and to become universal. Has humanity discovered a better way of overcoming the sins and diseases of mankind than that demonstrated by Christ Jesus and his disciples? If not, why does not humanity adopt his method, since it is the best and most successful that has ever been presented to mankind?

Christian Science healing is the result of spiritual understanding. When Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," he gave the recipe for all healing work. It depended on knowing the truth—the spiritual truth, there being no material truth. All that is the manifestation of Spirit, God, is spiritual, eternal, immortal, and immutable; therefore, the truth which Jesus referred to must express these qualities. Now, sin and disease are not spiritual, eternal, immortal, nor immutable—they are not a manifestation of Truth, which we are told will make men free. They must be seen as temporal falsities, which the spiritual understanding of eternal Truth destroys.

Christian Science teaches that the cause of disease is mental. Its origin is in the wrong beliefs of the carnal or mortal mind, which is "enmity against God." Disease is the fruit of wrong thinking. The indulgence of such beliefs as hatred, malice, envy, jealousy, resentment, fear, lust, and all other impure thoughts, may result in disease. Christian Science teaches how to destroy these beliefs and replace them with God's thoughts, divine ideas, which manifest themselves in the physical realm as health and harmony. When Paul enjoined us to let that Mind be in us "which was also in Christ Jesus," he meant the divine Mind, which enabled Jesus to heal the sick and reform the sinner.

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