Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.
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THE Sunday services and Wednesday meetings in Christian Science churches have one sublime purpose—that of healing. Through revelation and experience Mary Baker Eddy prescribed each component part of the services from prelude to postlude, and each is designed to contribute its share of blessing.
" THE Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever" ( Ps. 29:10 ).
" BELOVED, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. " In this arresting message from John, which is the second of three verses from his first epistle read at our Sunday services as a correlative passage to "the scientific statement of being" from the Christian Science textbook ( p.
ONE of the basic teachings of Christian Science defines the relationship of God and man. The Bible in various places indicates a oneness between God and man, symbolized by the sun and its light.
IT is revealed in the Scriptures and emphasized in the teachings of Christian Science that God is Love. It follows then that man, who is made in God's likeness, is by nature loving and lovable.
IN the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states ( p. 31 ), "First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth and Love.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals the great spiritual fact that God is the only Mind. This is a revolutionary teaching.
In order that he may be able to bear witness to the practical demonstration of Christian Science, which is based upon the words and works of Christ Jesus, the student of this healing truth is ever active in the effort to gain spiritual understanding. His textbooks are the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
" Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal.
Conviction can only follow understanding. Spiritual understanding of the allness of God and of man as His image and likeness, as revealed in Christian Science, convinces us of the truth of being.