Article May 7, 1927 Issue

The Rules of Christian Science

UNA B. WILLARD

To picture the harmony of a world wherein spiritual facts are recognized as the only real facts is at once a pleasant and a profitable activity. That the establishment of this harmony in our lives is within the reach of everyone has been clearly pointed out and demonstrated by Christ Jesus; and it has been made available to present age by Mrs. Eddy in Christian Science. It remains, then, for the individual to apply the rules of Christian Science, in order that the harmony of divine Being may become perceptible to humanity.

The rules are simplicity itself, but the application of them requires prompt, persistent reversal of old wrong habits of thought, steadfast holding to the spiritual facts of being, and patience to await the replacement of wrong thoughts with right ideas. It is not a task for the indolent, who soon become weary and try to climb up some other way; but to the earnest seeker after peace, joy, and progress, the very accuracy of the rules and the very insistence of their demands are at once pleasing and stimulating. In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 233) Mrs. Eddy says: "What think you of a scientist in mathematics who finds fault with the exactness of the rule because unwilling to work hard enough to practise it? The perfection of the rule of Christian Science is what constitutes its utility."

On pages 263 and 264 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read: "The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind. They have their day before the permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear;" and on page 428 we find the way in which this perfection may be made to appear. Our Leader writes: "To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear,—this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true. Thus we may establish in truth the temple, or body, 'whose builder and maker is God.'"

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