Editorial February 9, 1924 Issue

"The reign of Spirit"

Duncan Sinclair

On page 208 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for the reign of Spirit, the kingdom of heaven,—the reign and rule of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor remain forever unseen." In these words Christian Science makes its appeal to the whole world.

Now what is "the real and eternal," knowledge of which is the necessary preparation to "the reign of Spirit"? In the Christian Science textbook—indeed, in every one of Mrs. Eddy's writings—the real and eternal is the outstanding topic; for the aim of Christian Science is to make God known to men, in order that they may learn how to escape from the materialism into which they have been born. Think on the condition of affairs to-day. On every hand men are fettered by the beliefs of the world, by those material beliefs which are the direct precursors of sin, sickness, and death. The belief that matter is real, that matter is causative and has power, is the sinister influence in human existence responsible for all unhappiness. Should any one wonder why Mrs. Eddy, she who made the great discovery of Spirit's allness and of the fact that matter, the seeming opposite of Spirit, is unreal, after her discovery devoted her life entirely to making the truth known to mankind?

The real and eternal, then, is God and His manifestation. God, Spirit, is infinite; and there is no other real presence. No system of religion teaches this but Christian Science. All other systems admit the reality of matter, and try to reconcile Spirit with matter. But this cannot be done. The attempt to do so must always result in detracting, in belief, from the allness of Spirit, and in giving power to so-called matter, which Christian Science maintains is entirely hypothetical, illusory, unreal. No doubt the teaching of Christian Science is spiritually radical,—no teaching could be more so, viewed from the standpoint of material sense; but there it is, confronting the thought unenlightened spiritually, denying and upsetting every theory ever propounded by men based on the belief that matter is real.

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