ONE of the many reasons for which the Christian Scientist has a deep and continuing sense of gratitude is this: his religion demonstrates that neither disease nor sin originates in what is called matter or physical structure. Contrariwise, divine Science proves beyond question in this age, as Christ Jesus proved centuries ago, that all baneful and restrictive bodily conditions are fundamentally mental and not material.
These valuable scientific truths are made accessible to humanity now through Christian Science, discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy. In Science and Health, she states (Pref., p. xi), "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."
The foregoing quotation renders groundless the mistaken suggestion that the physical and moral healings accomplished by Christ Jesus and his disciples and those demonstrated today in the practice of Christian Science healing are even remotely connected with materially mental methods attempting to show the superiority of mind over matter. In divine Science the ministrations of the one pure divine Mind, God, are the all-inclusive and the all-exclusive means of purifying, healing, uplifting, and governing human consciousness.
