Article February 9, 1924 Issue

In all of Mrs. Eddy's teaching, the divinity of the Christ...

Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for Pennsylvania,—Erie

Dispatch-Herald

In all of Mrs. Eddy's teaching, the divinity of the Christ is unvaryingly accepted and taught. And in making a distinction between the divine Christ and the corporeal Jesus, she followed Bible teaching. To many people the reason may not have occurred why Christ Jesus, or Jesus Christ, should be so called, instead of Jesus only. the reason is important as differentiating between that which is human, material, and temporal, and that which is divine and eternal. The bodily Jesus was human and disappeared; but the Christ is divine and eternal, existing as the Son of God "before Abraham" and "before the world was."

Throughout her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy consistently maintains the scientific and absolute distinction which the Bible makes between the seen and the unseen, the material and the spiritual, the temporal and the eternal. "Christ," she writes (p. 333), "expresses God's spiritual, eternal nature. The name is synonymous with Messiah, and alludes to the spirituality which is taught, illustrated, and demonstrated in the life of which Christ Jesus was the embodiment." The world is rapidly coming to her viewpoint and acknowledging a never ending debt of gratitude for that spiritual purity which enabled Mrs. Eddy to see so clearly and make plain to benighted humanity the great gulf which exists between material unreality and spiritual reality.

The question of "original sin" has been one of contention for centuries among theologians, and has brought continuing pernicious and quite unnecessary evils upon mankind as a direct result of not comprehending the above distinctions. Here again Mrs. Eddy's solution of the question leaves no possible doubt to enlightened readers, and makes clear many passages of Scripture bearing directly thereon, such as the following: "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father;" "He that committeth sin is of the devil;" "Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God."

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