Article February 11, 1922 Issue

The teaching of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder...

William E. Brown

Pasadena (Calif.) Evening Post

The teaching of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, concerning the visible universe may be seen by reference to page 240 of her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where we read as follows:—

"Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens,—all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light." Christian Science teaches that God is the only cause and creator and that His universe is good and "very good," as declared in the first chapter of Genesis. That which produces seeming discord is man's material misconception of the universe; or, as Paul has it, "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." Salvation, then, is as Jesus declared, the ability to know the truth, and the authority for teaching a present realization of the promises of Christianity resides in Paul's message to the Corinthians, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."

It is almost unbelievable that a Christian clergyman claiming to be familiar with the teachings of the Bible and Christian Science could declare that there exists no relation between them. Christian Science is based wholly upon the Bible, and its mission is to make practical the teachings of the Master in healing sin and disease. The textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is the key of spiritual understanding to the Scriptural truths, which Jesus declared would make men free. The proof that the key fits the lock and opens wide the gates of heaven here and now, is established in the experience of multitudes who have been loosed from the bondage of sin and sickness and restored to health and righteous living. Frequently such results have occurred after all human skill had been exhausted, thus proving the Scriptural promise, "With God all things are possible." Christian Science, taking for its premise the allness of God, and with its spiritual understanding healing the sick and redeeming the sinner, may well ask of its opponents the question asked of the Jews by Jesus, "Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?"

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