Article May 25, 1929 Issue

Primitive Christianity

FRANCIS C. GEORGE

The name "Christian Science" is so closely associated with the healing of disease that one is apt to center one's thought upon this activity, and lose the broader vision which Mrs. Eddy's work should give us; for Christian Science is more than a mere curative system.

In the Manual of The Mother Church we find an "Historical Sketch," part of which reads as follows (p. 17): "At a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association, April 19, 1879, on motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was voted,—To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Here we find that it was our Leader's intention that her church should "reinstate primitive Christianity and"—but not alone—"its lost element of healing." Indeed, the healing power cannot be separated from Christianity, since healing must come through the understanding of God, divine Love, and the perfect man in God's likeness, understanding which Christ Jesus presented as the needful thing.

It is recorded of the primitive Christians in Acts that "the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." Though methods may differ, according to the times and circumstances in which we find ourselves, the spirit which animated these early Christians will, if we but seek it, find its proper expression at all times and under all circumstances, until it can be finally said of all, as it is recorded of them, that "neither was there any among them that lacked."

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