Article July 22, 1922 Issue

An understanding of Christian Science includes the ability...

Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,

Leesburg Citizen

An understanding of Christian Science includes the ability to practice it in part. No one is in a position to speak understandingly on this subject who has not been able to demonstrate it. In human, mortal experience pain and sickness seem very real conditions. As we come to learn with Paul that we live and move in closest possible union with God, and that God is more to us than any and all beliefs, we begin to see that inharmony is no part of God's creation, which He pronounced "good" and "very good," but is a falsity or illusion, which invariably disappears as we cling steadfastly to God and His idea.

An editorial writer of a daily paper in the Middle West has said of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science: "Mrs. Eddy was a great and grand woman. We believe her to have been the greatest woman the world ever knew. She was the most loved and at the same time the most maligned woman of the age. She gave to the world a religion that will be found eternal. Those who have espoused it have found it a great solace, and it has made them better citizens. Its teaching have brought a good God closer to them and caused them to know that He is 'a very present help.' It teaches that God is Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love, and that 'man is His image and likeness,' and that the real man and the universe are spiritual, not material. It teaches that God is the only cause and creator and that there is no other presence or power. Upon these principles is founded the religion which Mrs. Eddy discovered and gave to the world; and it is rapidly covering the face of the earth."

Criticism by Christian ministers of Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science can do no harm. There are over two thousand Christian Science churches and societies throughout the world, and every such organization has been established solely for the purpose of reinstating "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). The power of Christ to heal and save and bless is here now. The religion which most clearly reveals this Christ-power, the religion which most clearly patterns the gospel teachings, is the religion which is nearest right. Speaking of the main purpose of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy states on page 150 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "To-day the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent, eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of 'on earth peace, good-will toward men.' This coming, as was promised by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world."

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