Article July 30, 1927 Issue

The Test of Education

LOUIS A. GREGORY

Jesus the Christ was the great Teacher, because he taught pure truth. He is the greatest helper of humanity, its Saviour, because he demonstrated practically the truth he taught. The Gospels relate that he spoke with such simplicity and clearness that his hearers were inspired and transformed by his instruction; also, that he proved his doctrine by healing all kinds of disease and even by raising the dead. Regardless of this, those of his time looked upon him as uneducated. The disciples and early Christians reflected the spiritual inspiration of the Master; they taught and healed as he did. But because they did not conform to the educational methods of the time, they were called "unlearned and ignorant men" by the elders and scribes.

In our day, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, has been dubbed ignorant by school men who are confounded by her reasoning and mystified by her healing work. Her followers, in proving that health and holiness are logically and demonstrably Christian and scientific, necessarily come into conflict with certain of the claims of scholasticism; and so are sometimes derided by scholastics who cannot equal either the logic or the demonstration of the spiritual healing of Christian Science.

The contrast of the Master's fruitful teachings with the barren materialistic beliefs of the schools leaves no reason to doubt which offers practical guidance for humanity. To-day, the inability of scholastic theology and materia medica to meet vital human needs contrasts with the demonstration of Christian Science in reformation and healing, and confirms Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 235), "School-examinations are onesided; it is not so much academic education, as a moral and spiritual culture, which lifts one higher."

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