Editorial May 30, 1925 Issue

Our Textbook

Albert F. Gilmore

Few persons have had the privilege of presenting to the world a message which has revolutionized human thought on the most important of all subjects, namely, God, His nature, His creation including man, and man's relation to Him. Christ Jesus had this unprecedented privilege, which is shared in our own time by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Jesus' message, presented in the four gospels, turned men to the worship of God as Spirit, proclaiming the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Mrs. Eddy, amplifying the precepts of the Master, revealed divine Science, the Science of being, its rule and method of application to the gaining of salvation; she taught mankind how to gain freedom from the limitations of materiality in all its manifold forms. This revelation, which came through prayerful and persistent study of the Holy Scriptures, is set forth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Of the divine source of Christian Science Mrs. Eddy has written on page 110 of the textbook, "No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health; and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it;" and she closes the paragraph with these words: "But the Science and truth therein will forever remain to be discerned and demonstrated." Sublime assurance! Yet how justified has been our Leader's strong stand through the experiences of the hosts who have become the beneficiaries of the healing truth contained in her textbook! Her bold words have been proved true beyond peradventure of doubt, and the proof is cumulative. "The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations;" and both nations and individuals have profited beyond calculation from the beneficent influence of the healing Christ which for half a century, through the ministrations of Christian Science, has gone its silent way, mitigating and destroying the baneful effects of evil.

Many find in the textbook of Christian Science the counterpart of the "little book" which John saw in his marvelous experience in beholding reality. The "mighty angel" whom John visioned had in his hand a "little book open;" and John declares that when he demanded of the angel that the book be given him, it was given him with the command that it be taken and eaten. In obedience, John took the book and ate it up; and it was to his mouth "sweet as honey," but in its assimilation it became "bitter." In commenting on the message of her little book, "Truth's volume," Mrs. Eddy says on page 559 of Science and Health: "Mortals, obey the heavenly evangel. Take divine Science. Read this book from beginning to end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter."

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