Article October 20, 1923 Issue

The Bible makes a clear distinction between the manifestation...

Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Comstock

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The Bible makes a clear distinction between the manifestation of God and the operations of the human mind; and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, holds steadily to the spiritual pronouncements of Holy Writ, indorsing, in every respect, the teachings of Christ Jesus. Jesus declared, "God is a Spirit;" and Moses' words are, "The Lord our God is one Lord." Christian Science, therefore, acknowledges but one Spirit, who is the infinite and only God. It departs from the belief of souls, spirits, or minds dwelling in physical bodies, which theory is entirely apart from Christ Jesus' words and works, and rests its demonstrations on the sound basis of one Spirit, God, and of a creation which is wholly spiritual, including man in His image and likeness. This precludes the possibility of a man who is not God's image and likeness, who is not the reflection of Life, Truth, and Love.

In the Christian Science textbook there is a chapter of thirty pages entitled "Christian Science versus Spiritualism," in which there is a direct denial of any theory that there is more than one Spirit, and of the possibility of those in this world communicating with the departed. On page 74 of this work Mrs. Eddy has stated, "No correspondence nor communion can exist between persons in such opposite dreams as the belief of having died and left a material body and the belief of still living in an organic, material body."

With reference to anything in the nature of hypnotism Christian Science makes known that there is no power apart from God, good, who is the only Mind. The effects of Christian Science are ever good, coming forth from the everlasting fount of Love and Truth with its message of peace and joy, comforting and healing all who come within its atmosphere. All effects of the so-called human will are evil; and mortal mind is stripped of its seeming power by understanding and obeying God in the way Christian Science teaches. Christian Science offers nothing mysterious, nothing to act through human superstitions and fears. On the contrary, it reaches that thought-quality to which divine goodness makes a direct appeal to that in us which is responsive to divine Love. It maintains that God's power to make known to His children that which is pure, good, and real has never been destroyed; that we have never been deprived of our ability to understand, if we truly turn to Him as He is; that Christ Jesus made known what man is, in God's image and likeness; that the story of Adam and Eve and the garden of Eden is a mythological account of the supposed activity of evil and a material concept of man, which has been the world's pattern, but which Christ Jesus proved to be false and unknown to God. In the earnest desire to have Christian Science presented in its proper association with the Scriptures, we have no quarrel with individuals, but strive ever to have in thought these words from the first epistle of John: "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another."

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