Article April 28, 1923 Issue

Mrs. Eddy did not base her conclusions upon the findings...

Charles M. Shaw, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Rochdale

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Mrs. Eddy did not base her conclusions upon the findings of scholars, but upon the true interpretation of Biblical statements. Her own words from her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 521), are quite clear: "The second chapter of Genesis contains a statement of this material view of God and the universe, a statement which is the exact opposite of scientific truth as before recorded." And it may be said that not only is her interpretation in line with revelation, but it can be demonstrated in human experience.

It is obvious that if God is omnipresent and omnipotent, this fact excludes the possibility of the existence of evil, except in mortal belief; and that false belief produces baneful results in human life is unquestionable. The Christian Scientist who meets false beliefs on the basis of an understanding of the allness of God, good, is able, in the degree of his understanding, to overcome these evils.

Neither a Christian Science practitioner nor a suffering patient would ever try to believe that a broken limb was not broken. That would be the method of mental suggestion, which is poles apart from Christian Science. They would lift their thoughts above the material sense condition as being a false sense, and would endeavor to hold in consciousness the right idea of man as wholly spiritual and as the likeness of God. In proportion to their fidelity to Truth would the healing take place. A false belief which causes sickness in children, and very often in adults, is the belief that man is material as well as spiritual, that he exists in a physical body in subjection to mortal laws. The understanding of spiritual creation frees us from such subjection, and thus proves Mrs. Eddy's account of creation to be correct.

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