Article March 21, 1925 Issue

Demonstrable Christianity

LUCETTE S. RAGSDALE

FROM the earliest history of the human race, mankind has been reaching out for the truth which frees from every belief that so-called mortal mind suggests. All through the Old Testament we have the proof of the power of God to heal, to protect, and to supply human needs, as shown in the lives of those who have understood Him best.

Jesus came demonstrating to the fullest extent the truth about God and man's relation to Him. Only a few in our Master's time caught the real import of his teachings; and this brought healing to the sick, purification to the sinning, and comfort to the weary ones weighted down with the cares of the world. But materialism appeared to creep into the pure spiritual teachings of Christ Jesus, and men began to disagree over ritual, dogma, and ceremonial, which were merely human opinions and speculations or the outcome of these. They became as the mist that would hide the truth which Jesus, as our Way-shower, spent his earthly life in teaching and proving. The vital part of Christianity seemed, for a time, to be obscured. It remained for our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, through her faithful, consistent, patient, and consecrated devotion to the Christ, Truth, to reveal again to humanity that which does bring peace, joy, and dominion over all that is unlike God, good.

To-day many are finding in Christian Science a way out of sickness and sin and limitation of all kinds. But let those who may be struggling with some problem and who have not yet seemed to find an answer, consider a case in mathematics. Would you question a rule in numbers simply because you failed to apply it correctly? Or again, would you expect to work out a complete problem by applying only a part of the rule involved? Certainly not! Yet that is apparently what we sometimes find students of Christian Science trying to do. They fail to utilize in their daily lives the truths it so clearly sets forth, and then wonder why it does not fulfill its mission in solving their daily problems. The fault, however, is not with divine Principle, but in the application of it. In just the proportion that we use the rules of our religion will our difficulties be untangled. The answers to these problems will always be correct if they are arrived at through an understanding of divine Principle and its laws, which are unchanging and eternal.

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