Article December 19, 1936 Issue

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

From an address given by the Hon. C. Augustus Norwood, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, at Massachusetts State College,—Amherst, November 8, 1936

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, begins with a chapter on prayer. This is significant, both because of the beauties of Mrs. Eddy's statements on prayer and because it so thoroughly refutes the charge which is sometimes made that Christian Scientists are a prayerless people. Referring to this chapter from a Boston pulpit in 1929, Dr. William L. Stidger is reported as having said, "I wish for my own life and my own home that I might have in it the beauty and power and the spirit of prayer that are in that chapter."

The textbook closes with a chapter entitled "Fruitage." It consists of testimonies of those who have been healed by reading and studying this book. Many of the people issuing these testimonies had suffered for years and had turned for help to many physicians before turning to Christian Science, and there can be no doubt of the healing efficacy of Christian Science when one considers these testimonies, in addition to the thousands which have been printed in the Christian Science periodicals and the healings which have been testified to in Wednesday evening meetings held throughout the world in Christian Science churches. Thus we see that the Christian Science textbook starts with a beautiful chapter on prayer and ends with a chapter which proves that the teachings which the book contains is indeed the word of God.

Christian Scientists believe that Christ Jesus came to destroy sin through spiritual understanding of God's great goodness. They know that sin was not created by God, because God declared His creation to be good, and John taught that God is Love. Sin, then, is not spiritual and eternal, but is mortal and temporal. But sin is not to be indulged on the grounds of evil's unreality, and, moreover, when a man identifies himself with sin he reaps the punishment which always follows sin.

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