Editorial March 13, 1943 Issue

Should I Join the Church?

Paul Stark Seeley

Many turn to Christian Science at first simply because they want relief. The heat and hurt of human existence have become too difficult. They reach out for help and healing. Of those whom Jesus healed with this Science a few thanked God, but many more turned away when their desire for mere physical relief was fulfilled.

Today men's thinking is better. Many of those helped and healed by Christian Science pursue their quest. They desire to know what it is that has touched, comforted, and improved them. Their study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook makes them discoverers of the great spiritual facts of Life. God, they find, is the one universal, always present Mind, the Life that is Principle, and man is really the individual spiritual evidence and proof of God, the individual expression of Divine Being, the son of Deity.

Sometimes quickly, sometimes gradually, the student comes to appreciate the greatness of Mrs. Eddy's discovery and its unstoppable destiny, which she states on pages 266 and 267 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" thus: "It is undoubtedly true that Christian Science is destined to become the one and the only religion and therapeutics on this planet. And why not, since Christianity is fully demonstrated to be divine Science?"

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