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of each section of the Lord's prayer; but this, while elucidating the spiritual meaning of the prayer, has in no way superseded it.

Christ Jesus said he would pray the Father that He should send another Comforter, who would bring all things into remembrance whatsoever he had taught. Christian Science certainly is bringing his teachings into remembrance and disclosing their practical import in our daily experience, and Mrs. Eddy says of this Comforter that she understands it to be Divine Science.

Christ Jesus is acknowledged as the Saviour; but truly to find in him the Saviour of the world requires, according to the teachings of Christian Science, more than mere belief. It was our Master's requirement that men should walk in the path he trod. Were the critics of Christian Science to endeavor to follow in his footsteps by obeying all his commands—healing the sick and the sinning, as well as loving God supremely, and their neighbor as themselves—forbearance surely would replace censure, and love characterize all thoughts.

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