Editorial March 30, 1935 Issue

Practical Science

Duncan Sinclair

Anyone who without bias studies the teaching of Christ Jesus as it is recorded in the New Testament will readily admit its eminently practical nature. He taught the truth about God—real Being—and applied that truth to heal disease, overcome sin, nullify so-called material law, and actually to destroy for several others as well as for himself mankind's bitterest enemy, the belief of death. It is impossible to think of a more practical religion than that which Jesus taught by precept and example, and bequeathed to his followers.

Christian Science is the religion of the Founder of Christianity. It deviates in no particular from the teaching and practice of the Galilean Prophet. Moreover, it elucidates the Science which underlay his teaching and practice, making them plainly intelligible to the student. And how practical is Christian Science! By it the sick are healed, the sinful cleansed, the sorrowing comforted. It is thus meeting the needs of mankind today as they never have been met before.

Christian Science practice is sustained by spiritual understanding; that is, by the understanding of real spiritual being. God is known through this Science as perfect Mind and man as Mind's perfect idea. This knowledge underlies all Christian Science practice. Suppose someone comes to a Christian Science practitioner for help. (And, under ordinary circumstances, the rule in Christian Science practice is that the one needing help shall ask for that help, either directly or indirectly, on the reasonable basis that the practitioner cannot presume to enter another's mental domain uninvited.) What does the practitioner who has been asked to help do? He analyzes the case mentally, the while he is assured of the perfection of man, in order to ascertain the leading error, or errors, and then he applies the truth—affirms it, realizes it—thus destroying the error.

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