Editorial April 4, 1953 Issue

CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE ARE ONE

Richard J. Davis

Speaking of the unity of Science and Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 135): "It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration. This proves the one to be identical with the other. Christianity as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light."

Not only are the teachings of Christian Science scientific, being based upon a logical and demonstrable understanding of absolute Truth, but they are also eminently Christian, because they radiate and exemplify the undivided spirit of the Christ.

What was this spirit of the Christ which Jesus manifested and which was unmistakably expressed in his healing work? First of all, it must have been a correct and scientific understanding of God, of true being, of what God is and of what man is. Jesus understood that God was not a manlike Deity, a distant entity somewhere perhaps in space, but rather the self-existent, spiritual, and all-perfect cause, all-inclusive and all-pervading Being. And the teaching of Christian Science conforms to this definition, declaring God to be the one infinite, the one Mind, the one intelligent Principle of all being. In line with this, Mrs. Eddy on page 587 of her textbook defines God as, "The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."

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