Article April 11, 1936 Issue

In order to gain a true perception of Christian Science it is...

Extracts from an address given by Captain T. J. Deans, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland, to members of the Belfast Branch of Toc H,—on December 13, 1935

In order to gain a true perception of Christian Science it is of great importance, if not indeed an essential requirement, that we shall first get to know something about the Discoverer and Founder of this religion—Mary Baker Eddy.

She was a woman of education and culture, a thinker and, as her life proved, a doer. From childhood an earnest student of the Scriptures, she had a deep conviction of the power of prayer. It was not, however, until the year 1866, when Mrs. Eddy was in her forty-fifth year, that her earlier activities and efforts to find a mental cause for all physical effects began to mature, and what she terms "the Great Discovery" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 24) came about.

Christian Science has been described as giving a demonstrable understanding of the fact that God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Most of us have been taught to believe that God is all-powerful, but how many of us do sincerely accept that fact? How many of us believe, or understand, that God is ever present and all-knowing? Christian Science enables us to gain a better understanding of God and of our relation to Him; it illumines thought and enables men to perceive the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures, and reveals the "recipe for all healing" which, Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 406), is contained in the Bible. It explains in a most wonderful way the life and works of our Master, Christ Jesus; and enjoins upon all its followers the paramount necessity of following faithfully in his footsteps.

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