FOR more than forty years Christian Science has been waging unremitting and successful warfare against the belief in sin. sickness, and death. Since Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the truth Jesus came to declare, Christian Science has been proving the omnipotence of God in human affairs. It has preached the gospel to those who were ready and willing to listen. It has revived the drooping faith of multitudes in Christianity itself; given back the Bible to doubting ones; explained the so-called miracles as natural demonstrations of the power of good over evil. It has solved the so-called mystery of evil, as having substance and power, by showing that it is not God-created, hence not real. It has been a comfort to the bereaved by teaching them that true life and substance are eternal and indestructible.
All this has been done according to law. The success of Christian Science in overcoming sin, sickness, and death is due to the fact that it fulfils the law of God, that it applies this law to every-day affairs, finds it available on every day of the week and in every trouble which comes to harass mankind. In this connection it is well to consider that the term law means something which is not physical but metaphysical, something which cannot be apprehended by the physical senses, but can only be thought of. No one has ever seen or heard a law, only the consequences of law on physical conditions can ever be ascertained by the physical senses. The method of Christian Science in applying the law of God is purely metaphysical, nevertheless it effects physical healing as well as mental and moral cures.
The interpretation which Christian Science gives to the Scriptures is metaphysical, so is its explanation of the commandments in the Old Testament and of the promises in the New; for example, that magnificent law of the Christian religion entitled the First Commandment, which lies at the very basis of all success in Christian life and conduct,—"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and the author of its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," thus comments upon or interprets this fundamental commandment (p. 467): "This me is Spirit. Therefore the command means this: Thou shalt have no intelligence, no life, no substance, no truth, no love, but that which is spiritual."
