Promises that Attract

JAMES CRAWFORD GIBSON

A NOTED lawyer who introduced a Christian Science lecturer nearly a quarter of a century ago is reported as having said at that time, "I know very little about Christian Science, but I have been attracted towards it by reason of its many promises. If there is to be a fruition of these promises, if they are possible of fulfillment, then I am persuaded that the human race is at the dawn of its deliverance from evil."

Jesus came to earth in the "fulness of the time," to establish a new order of things: he came preaching the gospel of Love to the poor, and healing Sickness and disease. And he promised that these healing works would be continued by his true followers, who understood the source of his power to be his father; for Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." Jesus' compassionate love was always expressed in behalf of the poor and afflicted. He said, "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." The human heart today, as in the time when the Master was on earth, is crying out for rest, for deliverance from the bondage of material beliefs—sin, sickness, and sorrow.

Promises usually attract those who feel the need of something they do not possess. What is it then that makes the promises of Christian Science attractive to suffering humanity? The mission of Christian Science is to deliver, to save, to fulfill the promise of Jesus the Christ, who said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christian Science comes with the promise of a present deliverance from all bondage to evil; for it teaches that all power belongs to God, good; that the healing power is divine Mind. It brings rest to the weary, and points the way to an harmonious and happy existence. Christian Science proves God to be a kind and loving Father, who sends no sickness, disease, or death to His children, but "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases," the God who is ever present divine Love. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 114) Mrs. Eddy says: "Christian Science teaches: Owe no man; be temperate; abstain from alcohol and tobacco; be honest, just, and pure; cast out evil and heal the sick; in short, Do unto others as ye would have others do to you."

An understanding of Christian Science and the application of its divine Principle will destroy all evil thoughts, and thereby prevent, or destroy, their manifestation in sickness on the human body. When one is free from evil thoughts and his consciousness is filled with good, this will bring health and harmony, and the assurance of immortality. Then there can be no reasonable doubt of the fulfillment of Christian Science promises; for the Scriptures declare, "With God all things possible." The whole Christian Science movement like the organization of the Christian Science church, as its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in the Manual (p. 17), was "designed to commemrate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

To-day, multitudes are being healed and made free through the demonstration of divine law as revealed in Christian Science. Surely this is humanity's deliverance from evil. Christian Scientists to-day are grateful in having part in the fulfillment of the promises of the Master. In Science and Health (Pref., p. xi) Mrs. Eddy says, "Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us.''' What a comforting thought to the sorrowing; how full of hope to the sick and sinful,—"God with us"! "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."

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