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Christian Science: The Restoration of Primitive Christianity
Originally published in the 1908 pamphlet titled Christian Science: The Restoration of Primitive Christianity
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is not the name for a new or improved religion, but rather is the most appropriate designation given by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy to the system of divine metaphysics which she, after an exhaustive study of the Scriptures, formulated. Its advent, less than half a century ago, was by way of the rediscovery and restoration to this age of the knowledge of the divine law of righteousness, and its availability in the adjustment, government, and control of human conditions and circumstances, not excepting the mitigation and ultimate destruction of all the ills and suffering which mankind seems heir to. It is the reclamation of the saving gospel of Love; even the divine method of forgiveness, pardon, and redemption which the great, loving, and tender friend of humanity, Christ Jesus, revealed as the inevitable operation of God's eternal law of justice and immortality.
A thorough and comprehensive investigation and study of the Scriptures, and more particularly the records which we have of the words and works of Jesus, should convince the unprejudiced student that the Master's teaching and practice cannot be regarded as other than the very Science of Christianity, of which he was a finished demonstrator and exponent, although he left no definite rules for its study, mastery, and practice. This, perhaps, because he found, as he declared, that the standard of morality which his teaching and its demonstration exacted was too high for many of his hearers and followers. Through persecutions, and the consequent wide departure of the Church from holiness, because of its rejection of the letter and spirit of true Christianity and a straying into sensualism, idolatry, and superstition, his system of mental therapeutics was virtually lost to humanity over sixteen centuries ago. Manifestly it was impossible that a Science so indispensable to humanity's need could be forever lost. Indeed, it was according to the logic of divine events that, some time, some one of sufficient purity of thought and purpose and of spiritual discernment should be able to rediscover and reestablish it, for the sake of suffering and tired humanity.
Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866 and formally made known her discovery in the following year, when she established the first school of Christian Science Mind-healing. In 1875 she published a book containing a thorough exposition of the subject, and gave to it the title "Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures." This volume is the authorized text-book of Christian Science, and is the only work published which correctly sets forth its teaching and the method of its demonstration. It does this with much elaboration, and with such clearness of statement that individuals of ordinary mental capacity can by a systematic study of its contents acquire sufficient understanding of the rule of Christian Science practice as to be able to apply it successfully in the healing of sin and disease.
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