What is it? The cognomen of all true religion, the quintessence of Christianity, and it heals sin and sickness. Part and parcel of all truth and love, wherever one ray from its full-orbed light looks in upon the heart, behold a better man.
Science is the fiat of divine intelligence, which, hoary with eternity, touches time only to take away its frailty; that it rests on everlasting foundations, the sequence proves. Have I discovered and founded at this period Christian Science, that which reveals the truth of Him? And how can you be certain of so momentous an affirmative? By proving its effect on yourself—divine.
What is the principle and rule of Christian Science? Infinite query, wonder in heaven and upon earth! Who shall say? The immaculate Son of the Blessed, God who is Love: listen, and he illustrates the rule. "Jesus called a little child, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Harmony is heaven. Science brings out harmony, but this harmony is not understood unless it produces a growing affection for all good, and disaffection for evil, all hypocrisy, evil-speaking, lust, envy, hate. Where these exist, Christian Science has no sure foothold; they obscure its divine element, and extinguish it. Even the life of Jesus was belittled and belied by individuals possessing these defacing deformities. Only the devout Marys, and such as lived according to him, understood the strong character of him who taught by the wayside, in humble homes, to itching ears, and to dull disciples, the words of Life.
