Editorial June 16, 1945 Issue

Science and Christianity Inseparable

Margaret Morrison

Science and Christianity are inseparable, the two wings on which one reaches the sublime heights of spiritual understanding, where are revealed the power of God and the goodness of His creation. Both wings must be unfolded and strong in flight if one would reach in demonstration the radiant heights of reality. Science to be exact must be based on a knowledge of Truth, that which is absolute and invariable, else science, so called, is purely empirical knowledge based on suppositional causes and effects, the vagaries of the human mind reasoning from two opposite causes.

It is recorded in the Gospel of St. Luke that Jesus, the Founder of Christianity, rebuked the lawyers, representing the intellectualism of that day, saying that they had taken away "the key of knowledge." Mary Baker Eddy, who has given to the world the Science of Christianity, says on page 127 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (truly the "key of knowledge"): "If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity." There can be no exact Science then outside a knowledge of God, Spirit.

In his miracles Jesus gave evidence of what must have been an exact and scientific knowledge which he possessed of God, Spirit, the great first and only cause, but he did not leave a scientific explication of that knowledge. That, he promised, would come later. In the Gospel of St. John he says, "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." "When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself. ... He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."

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