Be it fully understood that Christian Science heals purely and solely by denying physical causes and effects, and depending absolutely upon the power of the divine Mind to work the cure.
It is true that Christian Science teaches that the cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, and sin; and because of this teaching, Christian Scientists have learned that suffering and sickness are neither God-ordained nor God-sent.
Christian Science introduces the teaching of the All-in-all of God; that is, that God is Spirit, and man is His expression or likeness, and follows this with the instruction that its adherents must deport themselves according to such understanding of God and man, in order to work out their salvation.
I have taken great pains to investigate and talk with persons who have been the objects of some wonderful cures, and to talk with the person who has treated them, so that I might be able to say, in some sense, that I had a personal knowledge of the cases.
Christian Science teaches that true union with God is through virtue, truth, and love, rather than through adherence to any system of philosophical and religious belief, or through any form of mystical contemplation.
Christian Science
teaches that as divine Love reigns in our heart we will desire to help our fellow-man instead of condemning him, that we must be ever on the watch to guard against the sin of self-righteousness, to look to the beam in our own eye rather than to see the mote in our brother's.
In
talking to those who are seeking help in Christian Science, an expression of anxiety is sometimes heard in this wise: "I have been helped in Science so much, but there is one ailment that has not yielded, although I have striven hard to overcome it.
When
mortal man comes to understand that the only road leading to heaven is that of right thinking, he will realize the need of working out his own salvation accordingly.
Our Christian and denominational schools must never allow themselves to be outdone by any other institutions in their ardor for the fullest light and their courageous pressing onward toward the last fact that can be discovered.
