Science and Christianity are inseparable, the two wings on which one reaches the sublime heights of spiritual understanding, where are revealed the power of God and the goodness of His creation. Both wings must be unfolded and strong in flight if one would reach in demonstration the radiant heights of reality. Science to be exact must be based on a knowledge of Truth, that which is absolute and invariable, else science, so called, is purely empirical knowledge based on suppositional causes and effects, the vagaries of the human mind reasoning from two opposite causes.

It is recorded in the Gospel of St. Luke that Jesus, the Founder of Christianity, rebuked the lawyers, representing the intellectualism of that day, saying that they had taken away "the key of knowledge." Mary Baker Eddy, who has given to the world the Science of Christianity, says on page 127 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (truly the "key of knowledge"): "If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity." There can be no exact Science then outside a knowledge of God, Spirit.

In his miracles Jesus gave evidence of what must have been an exact and scientific knowledge which he possessed of God, Spirit, the great first and only cause, but he did not leave a scientific explication of that knowledge. That, he promised, would come later. In the Gospel of St. John he says, "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." "When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself. ... He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."

That Mrs. Eddy was able to receive this revelation of the Christ, Truth, and through teaching and demonstration show it unto men, proves that to be spiritually-minded is to be scientifically-minded. It was her pure spirituality that endowed her with humility through which she was able to discern God as changeless, immutable Principle, the Lawgiver. It was her Christlike compassion and love for humanity which enabled her to see that Principle is Love, divine Love, impartial and universal. It was her stupendous moral courage which enabled her to brave the opposition and persecution of the carnal mind and give Christian Science to the world. She must be acknowledged as the greatest Scientist of the age, as she has given to the world the exact Science of that knowledge which Jesus possessed, and which gave him dominion over all the earth through spiritual law.

Through Christian Science this knowledge has been made available to all. It comes not through intellectual power, scholastic attainments, astronomical calculations, or technical efficiency—all the complexities, mechanics, and uncertainties of mortal mind. An understanding of Christian Science increases the capacities of the human mind by enabling it to escape somewhat from its own limitations, but the mechanics of the human mind, however efficiently applied, are never the source of spiritual understanding nor the means of its attainment. Is it not the part of the Comforter to turn us from these complexities and uncertainties to the simplicity and assurance of the Christ; to the pure divinity, goodness, and power of those qualities of Mind whose light and law dissipate everything unlike themselves and enable us to live comfortably with our God? On page 466 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says. "Science will declare God aright, and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually." The exactness of Science cannot be separated from the tenderness of its divine Principle, Love. Christian Science is indeed the promised Comforter.

It is the part of the Comforter not only to ease the ills of mankind but scientifically to destroy them by uncovering and proving the unreality of their supposititious cause. This divine Comforter, or spirit of Truth, not only eases pain but destroys the belief that pain can have any cause or possible existence in the realm of Mind, where alone life is to be found. It brings not merely the ease from a sense of limitation and lack which results from material provision, but it brings scientific eradication of the belief that lack of any kind can exist in divine Love, whose law of abundant good can never be set aside. Thus we see that divine Science, the Comforter promised by Jesus, has come not to make us comfortable in matter, but with gentle inevitability to lead us out of matter, its limitations and falsities, into the satisfying and substantial joys and activities of Spirit. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany"' (p. 179) our Leader says, "Christianity and Science, being contingent on nothing written and based on the divine Principle of being, must be, are, irrefutable and eternal."

Science and Christianity are inseparably united as the Comforter, or spirit of Truth which guides into all Truth, into the strength and tenderness of Spirit, the intelligence and might of Mind, the beauty and grace of Love, the sinlessness of Soul, the exactness of Principle, the everlasting harmony and activity of Life. This divine Comforter is ever present and comes to each one as the "Sun of righteousness ... with healing in his wings," outshining the dreams of sense, bringing to the weary and heavy-laden the reality of rest and peace, lifting on the two great wings of Science and Christianity the life of all into eternal harmony.

Margaret Morrison