Christian Science Is for All

Duncan Sinclair

Christian Science is for all. How can we say that? Because it teaches the simple yet absolute truth about God and His creation which all men need to know. What do we find when we look around in the world of religion today? A great number of sects, differing more or less widely in their views of Deity, of man's relationship to Deity, and of man's relationship to man; differing widely in their views as to the nature of reality—real being. But there is the absolute truth about God and His universe; and Christian Scientists are convinced that Christian Science reveals this truth, that all men can comprehend it, and that were all men to comprehend it and apply their understanding of it there would be an end to inharmony, unrest, distress, and suffering in the world.

It will readily be admitted that if men were agreed on the nature of God they would have no difficulty in agreeing on all that pertains to God. In other words, they would have no difficulty in agreeing on the nature of His universe, including individual man. What, then, is the nature of God as Christian Science reveals it? Mrs. Eddy writes on page 140 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death." And on page 150 of "Miscellaneous Writings" she says: "God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect. Not more to one than to all, is God demonstrable as divine Life, Truth, and Love; and His people are they that reflect Him—that reflect Love."

Can anyone think of a Being higher in nature than infinite Life, Truth, and Love, a Being from which all life, all truth, all love emanate? And this Being, God, is universal, omnipresent. The human so-called mind may stand awestruck before the immensity of this truth; but how wonderful it is that men are able to understand it in a measure, and that their understanding is progressive! It is God who imparts the understanding of Himself. It is God's law that causes the understanding to increase. When the seed of truth is sown in human consciousness it cannot but grow and come to fruition.

How is it that some appear to be diffident in accepting the truth which Christian Science reveals? How is it that they do not accept without hesitancy the truth that God is Life and Truth and Love? They may wonder how the evil apparent in the world is to be explained; how sorrow and suffering and death, as they seem to present themselves to mortals, are to be explained. But if they will admit that God is infinite as Life and Truth and Love, what must logically follow? That evil, by whatever name it may be called, has no real existence. That was Mrs. Eddy's discovery, a discovery the understanding of which is gradually yet surely revolutionizing human thought, and resultant human activity. It is not to be wondered at that mortals have failed to agree on the things that pertain to God and His creation, since they have for so long continued to regard as real that which is utterly unreal—evil—and have in many instances held God to be responsible for evil. Unanimity in religion will be attained only when men understand God to be infinite Life, Truth, and Love, and, faithful to their understanding, perceive the unreality of evil and ascribe no power to evil.

But here again the doubter may come in with the question, How can this be proved; how can we be certain that evil is unreal and powerless? Christian Science replies that the student has only to be faithful to the truth, and false belief, whatever its seeming form, will cease. This is being done continually in Christian Science practice, in the healing of disease and the overcoming of sin. Suppose that someone who is laboring under a belief of sickness comes to Christian Science, accepts the truth about God which it reveals, and perceives the unreality of evil. He will be freed from the sickness if he holds steadfastly to the truth and denies the error. And the same rule can be applied to every other form of evil, to bring about its destruction.

Until men understand God to be Love—infinite divine Love—they will never find the rest for which they crave. But as they do understand that He is Love, their burdens will become lighter, their sorrows will be comforted, their sins forgiven, their diseases healed. The world is moving towards the acceptance of the revelation which Christian Science gives of God, surely, steadily. When divine Love is understood and manifested by men, then it shall be proved that, in the words of Paul to the Galatians, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."

Duncan Sinclair

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