Article July 17, 1937 Issue

"One infinite remedy"

VINCENT H. P. MOLTENO

Truth-Loving men and women, setting out in the hope of great and glorious achievements for good, have sometimes been upset by obstacles which they have believed to be insurmountable, with the result that they have enjoyed only a partial or a deferred success. The belief in evil has seemed to paralyze their best efforts. Today many believe that Christianity has failed. This is either because of their material sense of success, or because they have not understood Christianity sufficiently to find in it the solution to every human problem.

The discovery of Christian Science has given to all sincere seekers for Truth a new lease of hope. More than this, it so explains the words and works of Christ Jesus that Christianity, as he taught it, can be understood and proved to be the remedy for every human woe. The Master said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." He also declared, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Mary Baker Eddy, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," writes (p. 390), "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony."

Many may challenge these far-reaching statements by asking: Is my understanding of God, or my ignorance of Him, the arbiter of my destiny, the only cause of my happiness or misery? Does not heredity, environment, or circumstance have any influence? Whatever we may wish to believe, or seem to experience, we cannot escape from the fact that unless we understand God, we cannot understand man in His image and likeness, any more than a mathematician can understand the rules of mathematics without an understanding of its principle. To know God and His Christ is to have life and "have it more abundantly;" whereas the lack of an understanding of Him is the dream of life in matter, with its sin, disease, and death.

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