Article December 20, 1930 Issue

Christian Science is based on the teachings of Christ Jesus,...

Miss Dora M. Kisch, as Committee on Publication for the Transvaal, South Africa,—Johannesburg

Rand Daily Mail

Christian Science is based on the teachings of Christ Jesus, and Christian Scientists are earnest students of the Scriptures.

Christian Scientists pray the Lord's Prayer as given by our Master, and they use the prayer of aspiration and supplication, as well as that of affirmation, as evidenced by the "Daily Prayer" given in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. VIII, Sect. 4). But Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in the first chapter of "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures," says (p. 4): "Simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness."

In the same chapter Mrs. Eddy has given a short explanation of each section of the Lord's prayer; but this, while elucidating the spiritual meaning of the prayer, has in no way superseded it.

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