Article November 17, 1934 Issue

In reply to the letter of "Veritas," published in your...

C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa, in the

Newcastle Advertiser and Northern Post

In reply to the letter of "Veritas," published in your issue of March 24, Christian Science emphasizes that true Christianity is a practicable and demonstrable religion. It does this, because the Founder of Christianity healed the sick and the sinning, and raised the dead, and taught his followers to do so. Christ Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," and this promise is being fulfilled today.

Our Master taught the truth about God and man's relationship to Him. His understanding of the love of the Father enabled him to demonstrate a full salvation and to give to human hearts a sense of the ever-presence of divine Love; and love, Christian Science teaches, is the vital part of Christianity. This understanding of the presence of God as infinite Love gives one a sense of protection and freedom nothing else can give, and helps one to realize that the Christ is wholly apart from so-called material selfhood.

Christian Science interprets aright the earthly mission of Christ Jesus, which was to reveal eternal Life, the living Christ, and man's eternal, spiritual nature. It draws the distinction between the human Jesus, born of Mary, and the Christ, which he exemplified. And it makes available again to human understanding the Christ-power to heal the sick and the sinning. Thus Christian Science restores to the world "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). This promise of our Master is being fulfilled: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Mary Baker Eddy writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 135): "Christianity as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light."

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