Article August 22, 1925 Issue

"Adherents of Truth"

A. TOM YOUNGS

On page 497 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as part of her answer to the question, "Have Christian Scientists any religious creed?" Mrs. Eddy writes, "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." This the author gives as the first of six "important points, or religious tenets, of Christian Science."

The goal of the Christian Scientist then is eternal Life; and what a joy it is to find that through a study of the Scriptures, spiritually interpreted by Mrs. Eddy's writings, eternal Life may be seen as here and now, and that it may be realized by each student in proporation as he overcomes the belief in matter and, therefore, in death! We do not have to wait until the body has passed away and the so-called soul has risen at an imaginary judgment day, before the goal of eternal Life may be reached!

Christian Science teaches that man always has lived, and always will live, as the reflection of God, who is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. It is obvious, however, that the man here referred to is not a mortal, nor is God a corporeal being. When we begin to grasp the fact that God is Mind, infinite and eternal, and that man is the idea or expression of infinite Mind, the fact that eternal Life is now begins to dawn upon consciousness; and this realization must continue to grow with increasing conviction as spiritual thinking takes the place of human beliefs in matter, sin, sickness, and death. To the mortal, however, this spiritualized thinking comes not by "a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep," a mental state so graphically depicted by the writer of Proverbs. Mrs. Eddy tells us, in Science and Health (p. 233), that "the false claim of error continues its delusions until the goal of goodness is assiduously earnedand won." The goal of goodness and the goal of eternal Life are identical, since Life spiritually understood is good, and goodness must of necessity belong to eternal Life. The goal of eternal Life, therefore, must also be "assiduously earned and won." And by what means should the student attain this goal? Surely, as Mrs. Eddy says, by taking the inspired Word of the Bible as his "sufficient guide."

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