Editorial June 10, 1939 Issue

Consistency

Evelyn F. Heywood

The consistency of Christian Science lies in its acceptance of the oneness of God and His idea, of cause and effect, and of precept and practice. The derivation of "consistency" is from two Latin words meaning "together" and "to stand." "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt," said Jesus.

The difference between the Science of Christianity as taught by Jesus and discovered by Mrs. Eddy and that of other great religious teachings, is that Christian Science is consistent in root and branch. What it states is not tentative or speculative, but already revealed and established as the will of God, to be accepted in the light of divine intelligence, and practiced as evidence of an understanding which is obedient only to those laws which have been decreed by divine wisdom.

"We must look deep into realism," we read on page 129 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "instead of accepting only the outward senseof things. Can we gather peaches from a pine-tree, or learn from discord the concord of being?"

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