Article October 20, 1923 Issue

When Mrs. Eddy gave Christian Science to the world,...

Miss Kate Andreae, Committee on Publication for the County of Sussex, England,—Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill Chronicle

When Mrs. Eddy gave Christian Science to the world, she revealed something for which the human consciousness had been groping throughout the ages. It was the understanding of the ever-presence of God's law, the unerring Science or true knowledge which Jesus demonstrated in the accomplishment of his mighty healing works. In contradistinction to the belief in man-made theories, and finite, imperfect concepts of God and man, his unfailing perception and perfect understanding of the operative truth made him the greatest healer the world has ever known. This Science of real being, of which he was the Master, is the Science which Christian Scientists seek to emulate and prove. They realize that God's eternal laws are operating ceaselessly; that they never change, and are for all mankind in every age. "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it."

Christian Science is Christian because it gives to its adherents the compassion so needed in the world to-day. Far from "closing their eyes to the pain and sadness around them," the lives of genuine Christian Scientists are spent in comforting and healing the afflicted, bidding them remember that Jesus healed every sickness and every sin among the people, and commanded his followers to do likewise. That he gave these ills neither power nor reality is clear, for with a word they were instantly dispelled; thus proving unmistakably that they had no divine authority for their existence. His understanding of God's omnipotence and omnipresence extinguished them as light swallows up the darkness.

It was not self-preservation that Jesus promoted when he made whole the diseased, "whom Satan hath bound," but the understanding of the power of God to destroy the works of the devil. Not self-preservation, but self-immolation, is the demand of Christian Science. Its followers very quickly realize that it is only as they forsake the selfindulgence and the self-seeking of the flesh, only as they seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," that everything necessary for their happiness and well-being is added unto them. Above all, they are awake to the truth of Jesus' statement, "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."

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