Articles

When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, "Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. " Matthew xxvi.

Canst thou by searching find out God? Job xi. 7.

The lake which burneth with fire and brim stone, which is the second death. Revelation xxi.

It is sometimes asked: What are the advantages of your system of healing? I claim for healing by Christian Science the following advantages: 1. It does away with material medicine, and recognizes the fact that the antidote for sickness, as well as sin, may be found in Mind.

The parable of the Prodigal Son furnishes a beautiful illustration of the truth of Christian Science. Man in Science, at home with his Father, has every necessity of his being met.

' Twixt Truth and Error, there is this difference known,— Error is fruitful, Truth is only one. Herrick.

The philosopher, indeed, in studying the soul, has not only discerned that it is distinguished from the fluctuating forms of matter, by its power of apprehending immutable principles, but he has often been led to question whether anything really exists in the universe beyond Mind and Spirit; whether matter and the body have any substantial being; whether apparently external nature be not an actual creation of our own thought; or, in other words, whether, in believing in an outward world, we do anything more than ascribe reality to our own conceptions. Thus, from the very dawn of philosophy, there have been schools which have held that the material universe has no existence but in the mind that thinks it I am far from assenting to these speculations; but I recur to them with pleasure, as indicating how readily the soul passes above matter, and as manifesting man's consciousness of the grandeur of his spiritual nature.

We see its footprints today in the teachings of Christian Science,—the appearing again of Christ, or Truth, to man, in the light of spiritual understanding, designed to waken thought from its slumber in material belief, and arouse consciousness to the realization of spiritual Life in the eternal source of Being. When rightly imparted, it gives impetus to every high and noble desire, transforming by the renewing of the mind, and thus giving to man the sense of his true existence, and the rights and privileges belonging thereto, whereby he is to become master of the body, in bringing it unto perfection.

The ambition of mankind cannot engage in a nobler and more profitable pursuit in the world, than to employ every faculty in conforming self, and all things subordinate to self, to the model presented by the man Jesus. To derive edification and help from the example of Jesus, his teachings and work should be studied and received, and applied to all our necessities—to sin and sickness—in just as practical ways, and with just as much determination of purpose, as the methods adopted and employed in various mercantile, professional, and artistic pursuits.

Force of thought may be put forth to amass wealth for selfish gratification, to give the individual power over others, to blind others, to weave a web of sophistry, to cast a deceitful lustre on vice, to make the worse appear the better cause; but energy of thought, so employed, is suicidal. The intellect—in becoming a pander to vice, a tool of the passions, an advocate of lies—becomes not only degraded, but diseased.