Editorial May 4, 1963 Issue

The Consistency of Christian Science

Helen Wood Bauman

Critics of Christian Science have been known to rebel at the association of the two words "Christian" and "Science." But to one who understands something of this religion, there is nothing inconsistent in this name. It implies that Christianity is Science and that true Science is Christianity—the Science of Truth. In other words. Christianity and Science are identical.

Christ Jesus was a true Scientist: he demonstrated Christianity as Science and left his precepts and his works as the model of Christian consistency for all people and for all time. The truth he taught is Science, and it is always demonstrable as Science. His statement (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." implies true knowledge, which is scientific. Jesus not only revealed the absolute truth, but showed how this truth is applied to human problems.

Mary Baker Eddy discovered the divine Science, or truth, by which Jesus accomplished works commonly called miracles. To her these works were demonstrations of God's law and not the setting aside of that law. The consistency of our Leader's discovery is found in the fact that what she has taught is provable in human experience. If her teachings seem inconsistent to some people, they should consider that her system of healing has been proved true by a vast number of healings covering nearly a century.

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