Articles

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Brooklyn, N. Y.

WHY do you call evil error?" asks the newcomer in Christian Science. "Evil appears to us just as often as good, and often more poignantly.

IF our concept of love does not embrace something of the divine, if it is not pure, unselfish, uplifting, and compassionate, it is not love but its counterfeit. Mrs.

IN Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there" ( p.

STUDY of the Bible, however careful, without the "Key" that opens up its spiritual meaning, and therefore its use to us, is much like the study of some lovely piece of silk embroidery from the back instead of the front. The difficulties of the work may be seen from the back,—the knots and the fastenings; the great labor and patience which were required may be understood, and something of the design and coloring may be guessed at; but who that had never seen embroidery except from the back would in this way have any idea as to what it is like? Many people in their youth are obliged to spend much time in studying the Bible from this point of view, and it is not very surprising if in later years they discontinue such discouraging and unprofitable work.

AS far back as the records of the human race extend, there are to be found startling evidences of the misuse of a great and beautiful spiritual fact under the guise of mediatorship. This spiritual fact is that God, as Mind or intelligence, communicates Himself to men, and the spiritual perception and reception of this divine communication is the mediator between God and mankind, the truth which converts, reforms, regenerates, and redeems.

MRS. EDDY writes, "We know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God" ( Science and Health, p.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE seeks primarily the moral regeneration of mankind, the physical healing which is effected being properly secondary to the main import of this teaching. The basis of all disease is found in conscious or unconscious indulgence in sin, and in dealing effectively with sin, Truth uncovers and destroys the cause of disease.

EXPERIENCE was once defined as "chiefly mistake," and in so far as earthly experience goes, this definition is apt to be exact; for through the correction of mistakes, humanity elects to learn its lessons. The starting-point of all true experience must necessarily be spiritual.

CHRISTIANITY , as it was understood and practised during the early Christian era, included not only the preaching of the gospel but the healing of the sick, and this healing meant not merely the overcoming of disease and pain, but the overcoming of sorrow, sin, and misery of every character. The healing effect which resulted from an understanding of the gospel taught by Jesus, was in the nature of a proof of the correctness of his teaching, and it was this healing effect which differentiated his teaching from other religious systems then in vogue, and which attracted to it the attention of the civilized world.