Editorial March 18, 1950 Issue

OUR UNIQUE RELIGION

George Channing

The indispensable element in Christian Science practice is total reliance upon prayer. Attempts are sometimes made by the uninformed to establish a relationship between this religion and various philosophical, psychological, and psychiatric practices designed to deliver men and women by human means from their troubles. But there is a devastating answer to such attempts. That answer is in the fact that Christian Science depends for its efficacy wholly upon power which flows from knowledge of God.

True it is that Christian Science practice is in the realm of Mind, and true also that its demonstrations are in consciousness, the consciousness of good. But the Mind to which the Christian Scientist appeals is divine. That Mind has no kinship with what mortals regard as their mentality. It can never be known, its presence can never even be sensed, except through some degree of spiritual affection, some measure of consecration which constitutes love for God.

When Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science some eighty-four years ago, her achievement was the result of communion with God. Through that communion she made available for mankind an infallible system of thinking and contributed immeasurably to the clarification of historic problems, inherent in the imperfection of the so-called human mind. Yet her achievement never departed from any of the implications included in the fact that it was the result of communion with God. It definitely did not supply a way whereby the mind of mortals can correct itself, nor did it reveal hidden and hitherto unguessed perfection in the recesses of that so-called mind.

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