Article September 23, 1922 Issue

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ANNE CLEVELAND CHENEY

TO those who are just approaching the study of Christian Science, there is, sometimes, a feeling of perplexity over the definitions contained in the Glossary to the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Two apparently contradictory interpretations are often given to the same word. As the study goes on, however, these definitions become valued guideposts giving clear directions, when the student stands at the crossroads in some valley of decision. It becomes evident that Mrs. Eddy,s interpretation of the Scriptures is wholly spiritual; and Christian Science teaches that for a spiritual idea, or reality, a material lie would, if possible, reverse the statement of Spirit and establish in human consciousness the misstatements of material sense. This is being done continually, throughout all one's earthly experience. In the Glossary there is given the given the spiritual fact, and also the false claim of error which would reverse that fact.

In the study of languages we find that for each of many rules there are often many exceptions, which add not a little to the student's confusion, until the fundamentals are well understood. In studying the new tongue, the language of Spirit, we find there is but one divine Principle, which has one law, and there are no exceptions to that law; mortal mind, that which Paul terms the "carnal mind," is ever claiming to take exceptions, to the law of Spirit. These unauthorized exceptions, these attempted reversals of misrepresentations, Mrs. Eddy has set for our enlightenment, that we may learn in Christian metaphysics to know the real from the unreal, and not be misled into accepting the plausible assertions of the material senses for the pure, authentic utterances of the new tongue.

In so-called natural science the physical sense are admitted to be at times entirely untrustworthy. They would have us believe, for example, that two parallel rails reaching away in the distance merge somewhere at the sky line; that the sun rises to kindle the east with dawn, mounts to its zenith, and then sets in western glory; and many another familiar fable would the superstition of this false sense have the credulous children of mortals believe. Christian Science, divine Science, is proving to mankind that every testimony of these senses is entirely false, because predicated of matter–itself a colossal myth. Mrs. Eddy discovered that Christ Jesus was a Scientist, the greatest the world has ever known; and that he taught the unreality of matter, repeatedly stating to his disciples this fundamental premise and proving it by his works, or demonstrations, all of which, with steadily advancing understanding and proportionately increasing power, annulled the so-called laws of matter and destroyed one sense-impression after

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