Christian Science is based upon a demonstrable spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures, an interpretation that proves the Bible to be wholly consistent and logical, and enables the student to prove the law of God as given therein as Christ Jesus did and commanded his followers to do.
Two
statements of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on the opening page of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," and, "The time for thinkers has come.
In
the book of Isaiah it is written, "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The
command, "Come forth," is as imperative to-day as when given by Jesus, the master Metaphysician, to Lazarus; for is not the so-called Christian world of to-day mentally bound by the graveclothes of materiality—the belief of life, substance, and intelligence apart from God, and in matter—as surely as was Lazarus physically bound by the graveclothes of his day?
Most
students of what is termed human nature soon arrive at the conclusion of Paul, who states, in I Timothy, that "the love of money is the root of all evil.
The
beginner in the study of Christian Science, who is desirous of helping himself rather than depending wholly on the ministrations of a practitioner, will be found to devote himself earnestly to the textbook for relief when confronted by any physical problem.
