Article May 19, 1923 Issue

To live, move, and have our being in God is true spiritual...

Charles W. J. Tennant, Committee on Publication for London, England,

Wallasey News, Wallasey

To live, move, and have our being in God is true spiritual existence. Can one imagine for a moment that pain, disease, and suffering can be therein, and that God experiences these things? Christian Science does not teach that pain and suffering do not seem real to the physical senses. It does teach, however, that God is not their author. He is the creator of all that really is; therefore these things can only be the outcome of erroneous belief. The word "free" in the statement of our Master, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," certainly means free from everything that is unlike God.

Christian Science makes more of Christ Jesus than any other Christian denomination in the world, for it obeys implicitly his command to heal the sick and reform the sinner, as well as to preach the gospel. Jesus never prescribed medicine. Christian Science declares that it is through the Mind of Christ that the healing is accomplished, not through matter or any so-called activity of the human mind. Christian Science is the most beneficent influence in the world to-day. It is bringing to civilization the understanding of God as "the divine Principle of all that really is," as Mrs. Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275). It is breaking down the conception of a man-made God, which has kept humanity in darkness for centuries. It is teaching men to pray the prayer of spiritual understanding, which brings immediate results. It is uplifting morally, mentally, and physically all those who are gaining some understanding of its teachings. It is destroying malice, envy, hatred, fear, and jealousy. It is removing the suppositional curse on man, and giving mankind the consciousness of man's freedom as the son of God. The same useless and powerless antagonism opposes Christian Science that opposed our Master and his teachings during his brief ministry on earth. Christian Science does not do away with beneficent invention, but it does acknowledge that Jesus' method for the salvation of mankind is the only one that should be made universal.

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