The
knowledge that all is Mind, and that matter is but a false picture in the so-called human mind, brings the question of experience into a very different light.
When
Abram and Lot separated in the land of Canaan, after finding that they could no longer dwell together in peace and harmony, Abram's attitude was expressed in these words: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
In
the book of the prophecy of Isaiah we find the declaration that "a little child shall lead them;" and every faithful student of Christian Science is striving for that same absolute trust in and reliance on God as our heavenly Father which is shown by the little child toward its earthly parents.
It may properly be said that the aversion for drugs and material remedies in Christian Science practice is merely an inevitable corollary to the teachings of the Bible and of Science and Health that God is indeed infinite and all powerful.
The attack upon Christian Science by a clergyman is the more regrettable because Christian Science is the renascence of the religious system which Jesus of Nazareth established about two thousand years ago and upon which the creeds of all Christian denominations claim to be based, despite the radical differences that distinguish them and despite their failure to meet Christianity's most imperative requirement, namely, the healing of the sick by spiritual means.
The statement accredited to an evangelist in a recent issue gives one the impression that he felt called upon to say something startling against Christian Science in defense of his generally repudiated doctrine of a personal devil, and whether it had an intelligent meaning or not did not matter.
Christian Science acknowledges God, the "great First Cause" and creator of all, as eternal Truth, and considers as absolutely true in man only that which is the expression of the Father.
The feasibility, and even the desirability, of Christian healing is occasionally assailed, and its possibility questioned and denied by clergymen, to the surprise of the student of the Bible, who finds the Scriptures replete with instances of healing, together with the testimony of those healed and the spiritual method by which the cure was wrought.
