Editorial June 6, 1925 Issue

"The Scientist's demonstration rests on one Principle"

Duncan Sinclair

Mrs. Eddy, while she made free use of the Biblical terms for God, named Him divine Principle. In doing so she did not in the least detract from the divine nature. God to her was Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, the origin, source, or cause of all that really exists. In short, God to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science was the divine Principle of the universe, embodying in Himself every real spiritual quality.

The Christian Scientist makes free use of the various synonyms for God used by Mrs. Eddy, because he finds that each of them serves to convey to him some phase of the truth of Being. Thus, when he thinks of God as Spirit,—infinite Spirit,—he is better able to see the entirely spiritual nature of Deity, and so to deny the false claims of that which mortals call matter. Similarly, when he thinks of God as Mind,—infinite Mind,—he is better able to apprehend God as infinite intelligence, and so to deny the fallacy that divine intelligence is absent anywhere.

In like manner, the word "Principle" is a great help to the Christian Scientist; and its use does not in the slightest degree tend to make him think less of God as Mind, or Spirit, or Love, or Life; rather does it greatly help him to comprehend the facts that God never varies, that God acts through law which is unchanging, and that God is absolutely unalterable. The truth that God is divine Principle—that He is the one and only cause—gives the Christian Scientist an altogether reliable basis from which to proceed in solving the problems—the many and varied problems—of human existence. Mrs. Eddy states the position concisely when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 457): "The Scientist's demonstration rests on one Principle, and there must and can be no opposite rule. Let this Principle be applied to the cure of disease without exploiting other means."

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