Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.
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After a thorough investigation, I gladly reply to the question, "What are your views of Christian Science? " To me it is the one great Truth; the understanding of God, with all His loving attributes; the understanding of man; the understanding of the relation existing between God and man,—how He works in and through those who accept His truth understandingly, and faithfully abide in it. If Jesus is the vine, and we are the branches, as Scripture declares, must we not partake of His Substance, and our heritage be harmony, love, and peace? God spoke not more audibly to Adam, in the garden, than He calls to man in this the nineteenth century.
In Christian Science, "we take no note of time," except for the convenience of external earthly life. That is, in eternity there are no time-divisions; just as in one planet the year may be ten times our twelve months, while in another the year will not equal three of our months.
Even the words of the thoughtless in these days go to prove the principles of Mental Science true at every point. Mme.
[ A page from the new edition, just issuing from the press, of Science and Health. ] God is the Life, or Intelligence, that preserves the individuality of men and animals.
Metaphysics , not Physics, enables us to stand erect on sublime heights, surveying the immeasurable universe of Mind, peering into the Cause which governs all effects, while we are strong in the unity of God and man. There is a "method in the madness" of this system,—for madness it seems to many onlookers.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit. " Humility , with its attendant receptiveness, leaves open way for the workings of the holy Spirit.
The seed sown twenty years ago has taken root, and has now become a tree. Already birds of ill-omen, as well as of promise, seek to lodge in its branches, and clamor for its fruit.
Investigation and candor are handmaidens of Justice. To be searched and understood, is the only chance for a true Theism.