Editorial January 23, 1926 Issue

Meekness and Spirituality

Duncan Sinclair

Christian Science reveals the truth—the absolute truth—to all who will listen to its message. Almost sixty years ago Mary Baker Eddy discovered this Science, afterwards giving her discovery to the world in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings. The discovery included the truth about God, divine Principle, and about His creation, man, and the application of this truth to the healing of the woes which afflict humanity. Mrs. Eddy herself put the truth she discovered to the test by healing disease and sin in numerous instances. Her followers have done the same in innumerable cases, and thus are left in no doubt as to the veracity of Christian Science.

In the face of what Christian Science has enabled its students to do, in the face of the undoubted healings of all manner of disease and all kinds of sin which have taken place, healings which are now generally accredited as true, the question may be asked, Why is Christian Science not accepted by all? It cannot be that its message is too difficult to apprehend, for the child can understand it, and demonstrate it too. Neither is it that the word of the beneficiaries of Christian Science is discredited by those who are acquainted with these beneficiaries. What, then, is the reason? It is generally a very simple one, and one that cannot be better stated than is done on page 343 of Science and Health, where the following sentence occurs: "It would sometimes seem as if truth were rejected because meekness and spirituality are the conditions of its acceptance, while Christendom generally demands so much less."

Too often, then, the reason for the rejection of the truth that heals is lack of meekness and spirituality. And that this is so becomes plain when it is considered how great is the hold which material beliefs have over mankind, and how self-centered mankind in general is because of these beliefs. To an extraordinary extent the thoughts of mortals are dominated by false material sense, spiritual realities being in many instances almost if not wholly disregarded by them. The result is a condition of consciousness sadly lacking in meekness and spirituality, wherein the truth finds neither apprehension nor logment.

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