Editorials

From time to time, the effort has been made to show that Christian Science is not original and that it has its source in the opinions and beliefs held by the philosophers the sages, the thinkers, and the teachers of various periods in the history of mankind. It may be said, however, that the system of Christian religious teaching and metaphysical healing discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy is distinct and unique.

Mary Baker Eddy discovered the Science of being, the ultimate truths of God and man; and she reduced her discovery to a healing system whereby human beings are purified of sin and made healthy in mind and body. It was her understanding that the Principle of all being is infinite love, impartial and just, albeit divinely tender, that led her to see that the practice of Truth must be humane—must comfort and heal the race; that this Science must not merely add one more abstract theory to the history of men's worship, but must be a living, healing force that would interpret the nature and omnipotence of Deity.

The practice of Christian Science is a scientific practice; it is therefore exact, and not speculative. The truth concerning God and man, when entertained and understood by the Christian Science practitioner, heals with certainty.

In her life and manner of living, a marked simplicity characterized Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and revelator of Christian Science. Her home was dignified and representative, but devoid of ostentation or display.

Any act or experience by which one is purified is a form of baptism. Purification of thought is precedent to spiritual understanding, and therefore in order to heal through Christian Science it is necessary to purify thought, motive, and action.

Christ Jesus' parable of the talents in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew may refer to any right activity, and its application is seen in the exercise of intelligence. The servants who multiplied with use the talents entrusted them by their master were blessed, but the servant who hid his one talent in the earth was deprived of the little he had.

Through the study of Christian Science we learn that the real and only man of God's creating reflects the freedom of the divine Mind. We learn that being, or existence, is not material but spiritual.

The Scriptures reveal God to be Truth, one infinite, good Father, or Spirit, whose creation is good; and they expose the untrue, or deceptive, nature of all that is not good. In Genesis (3:1) we find the serpent, the Biblical figure for sin, described as "more subtil than any beast of the field;" and in Revelation (12:9) the same serpent is called "the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

True law is God's law, the law of Love. Law that does not include love is not God's law, and we need not be afraid of it.

" What ," Pilate asked, "is truth?'" ( John 18:38 . ) And through the centuries mankind continues to ponder the same query.