The
belief that God's law operates as a material law of nature, and that God at infrequent intervals sets aside this law when some special proof of His power becomes necessary to teach mankind a needed lesson, has never helped humanity to have faith in God.
I read with much interest the sermon in which a rector is reported to have expressed his earnest desire that the Christ-healing would be understood by his church, and recommended it to follow the Master's twofold injunction, "Preach the gospel" and "Heal the sick.
"When I reflect upon my experiences as a member of the Expeditionary Forces in France, there comes into my thought this statement from Science and Health.
Recognizing the inevitable correlation of Christian practice with preaching, Christ Jesus proved his doctrine of the omnipotence of good by destroying, and thus proving unreal, every phase of evil, such as sin, sorrow, and sickness.
A writer states that "Christian Science was born through lack of attention on the part of the medical profession to mental suggestion in the treatment of disease," thus by inference at least likening Christian Science treatment to mental suggestion.
In answer to the assertion by a local pastor in his sermon that Christian Scientists deny the existence of the material body, it may be said that Christian Science does not deny that the material body exists to human sense, but explains it as being a phenomenon of this human or material sense.
There are probably few scenes recorded in the Bible more dramatic in character and of greater metaphysical significance than Paul's recital of his conversion to Christianity, as he stood before the angry Jewish mob from whose violence he was delivered through his appeal to the Roman centurion.
In
explaining the methods through which error claims to work, a Christian Science practitioner once told how, some years before, when he was a prospector, he was one day out alone on the veldt in South Africa and came suddenly upon a troop of baboons.
One of the qualities of God mentioned in the spiritual interpretation of the Lord's Prayer, found on page 17 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is grace.
