Article August 4, 1923 Issue

Prayer is the subject of the first chapter in the Christian Science...

Walter H. Bedard, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—Columbus

Enquirer-Sun

Prayer is the subject of the first chapter in the Christian Science textbook. Here, on page 1, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God's gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successfully done for the Christianization and health of mankind."

As to the personality of God, Christian Science teaches that God is infinite Person, but not a physical personality. In attributing all power to God, the Supreme Being, as the healer of sin, disease, and death,—in fact, all erroneous conditions,—Christian Science fully subscribes to the infinity of God.

"The Holy Trinity" is expressed in Christian Science, not on the theory of three persons in one God, but as Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 331 of Science and Health: "Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite." We understand by this explanation that God is incorporeal, that He is Life, Truth, and Love, just as the Scriptures declare Him to be; secondly, Christ, as the spiritual idea of sonship, is a brief but clear definition of Son; and thirdly, divine Science, when understood, can easily be seen as the Holy Ghost or Comforter. Science is organized knowledge; and divine Science is organized knowledge of God. Therefore, divine Science is demonstrable Truth, and certainly nothing less than the promised Comforter.

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