Editorial May 25, 1963 Issue

The Bible and Science and Health

Helen Wood Bauman

Century after century the Bible has inspired and guided those who have turned to it as the Word of God. Through the Bible many spiritually hungry people have come to recognize God's existence and to obey His moral code, intuitively recognizing its rightness. They have revered Christ Jesus as the Saviour of the world and have endeavored to obey the Christian law of love and brotherhood, which he laid down.

However, Christians have often felt frustrated by their inability to carry out the Master's requirements to heal the sick and sinful and to overcome the seeming power of matter as he did and as he said his followers would do. Something has been lacking. People have sensed that treasures were locked within the Scriptures and that something was needed to make these treasures available. And they have been right.

That something was interpretation, and Jesus promised that it would come as the Comforter, which he described as "the Spirit of truth" (John 14:17). He said (16:13, 14): "When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. .... He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." The Master's words describe Christian Science in its very essence.

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