Article July 19, 1924 Issue

Class teaching in Christian Science is authorized by the...

Arthur P. DcCamp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri—Kansas City

Church World

Class teaching in Christian Science is authorized by the Manual of The Mother Church of Christian Science, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. This Manual was written by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discover and Founder of Christian Science. Under its rules an authorized teacher holds but one class annually, and it is limited to thirty pupils.

In Christian Science sickness is healed on the basis of its unreality. Sickness seems real to erring human sense, but is unreal to unerring divine consciousness. Its healing fulfills the Scriptural declaration, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Mrs. Eddy writes on page 474 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth, and Love, then they must all be from the same source; God must be their author. Now Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the Scriptures aver, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.' Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine will?"

Christian Science healing has nothing whatever in common with what is called suggestion, or with any effort of the so-called human mind to govern human mind. Christian Science declares with the greatest possible emphasis that God is the only Mind. To strive to be governed by this Mind is to strive to obey the First Commandment and Paul's injunction: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." It is the recognition of God's allness and the consequent nothingness of every form of evil which heals the sick. There is nothing more clear in Jesus' teaching than his expectation that his followers in all time would heal by his method. "By their fruits ye shall know them," he declared. Instead, therefore, of the Christian Science movement "prostituting the Christian religion" this great revival of Jesus' teaching and practice is bringing to humanity in increasing measure the ever available benefits of the religion of Christ Jesus.

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