Editorial April 28, 1951 Issue

"REVELATION, REASON, AND DEMONSTRATION"

Richard J. Davis

The great discoveries that have blessed and benefited mankind are obviously not mere accidents. They have come about because someone has been thinking, and thinking deeply; has been exploring and opening up new frontiers of thought and experience. Prior to her discovery and her own healing, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, had for many years been seeking to trace all physical effects to a mental cause, Her own sudden recovery from an injury that physicians had failed to heal turned her thought definitely away from matter to Mind as the only causation. She also perceived that there was a direct connection between her own recovery and the healings of Jesus, as recorded in the Bible. This led her to an exhaustive study of the Scriptures in order that she might understand why and how Christ Jesus accomplished his works of healing, healings which the world had regarded as miraculous, but which Mrs. Eddy discovered were the outcome of a demonstrable, operative spiritual law, and therefore wholly natural.

Referring to this period of spiritual study and investigation, she says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 109): "For three years after my discovery, I sought the solution of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and devoted time and energies to discovering a positive rule. The search was sweet, calm, and buoyant with hope, not selfish nor depressing. I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration." Three important steps, then, characterized the revelation of Christian Science to Mrs. Eddy.

First came the clear realization that God is Mind; that Mind is one and wholly good, and that all phenomena are the product, or effect, of this one self-existent and infinite cause. Then, as her study of the Bible continued, she reasoned that the great spiritual facts of being appearing to her were logical and inevitably true.

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