Editorial October 11, 1924 Issue

Christianity

Duncan Sinclair

Christianity and Christian Science are the same. In "Christian Science versus Pantheism" (p. 8) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Christianity, as he [Jesus] taught and demonstrated it, must ever rest on the basis of the First Commandment and love for man." And on page 301 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" she says, "Christian Science is the new-old Christianity, that which was and is the revelation of divine Love." Christianity, then, must be defined in terms of love for God and man.

Christian Science presents no difficulty with regard to the nature of God and man. It recognizes God to be infinite Love, omnipresent and omnipotent; and man to be God's image, likeness, or reflection. And God being perfect, man—the real man—is known to be likewise perfect. Thus the Christian Scientist has an understanding of the truths of real Being; and his effort continually is so to hold these truths before him that the errors of sinful sense may not vitiate his thinking.

Outside of Christian Science, where God and man are more or less imperfectly defined to human consciousness, certain modes of ethical thought are recognized and practiced, demanding high morality. But it is only when Christian Science reveals to the Christian, in the light of the allness of good, the fact that evil in every form is unreal, that what may be called the finer aspects of Christianity make themselves obvious. Then it becomes apparent that every thought must be brought into subjection to the law of Christ, Truth. Not only is the duty of doing no ill to one's neighbor inculcated, but the far higher duty becomes clear of loving one's neighbor as one's self, in accordance with Paul's statement to the Romans, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."

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