Articles

The Scriptures tell us that God is Love. When we become acquainted with God as Love, and Man "made in His image and likeness," we know that it is a divine command for man to reflect Love.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night. " Psa.

It is often remarked by the Christians of to-day, that healing is not necessarily a part of Christianity at the present time— that healing was only for Jesus and his time. Since I have taken up the study of Christian Science, I cannot see how Christianity and healing can be separated, if we can take the definition of the word Christian from the Bible Dictionary—as our authority—which is as follows: "Christian,—Follower of the highest and best known divine laws as taught by Jesus Christ.

I Have been a teacher in day school for over six years, and am ashamed to think I never heard of Christian Science until in Nov. '94; then only heard my mother had been treated by a Scientist and received much benefit.

Doubtless the first desire of each individual who has been healed through Christian Science is to know more of the divine Principle which can produce such results in the face of discord, fear, and oftentimes, long-abandoned hope, and thus be able to prove, or demonstrate, for himself the power of Truth. This desire is the still, small voice of Truth.

We read in Mark 6 that Jesus had sent out the twelve disciples, two by two, commissioned to preach the gospel of the Kingdom,— the rule and reign of universal harmony,— to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead and cast out devils. " The record tells us "they went out and preached that men should repent, and they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.

The case of the late Secretary Gresham was the occasion of one of those outbreaks that frequently occur between the pathies. A homeopathic physician attended the secretary in the beginning of his illness, and diagnosticated the case.

I can assure you that it gives me no ordinary pleasure to be able to write you that our blessed book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, can now enter Canada free of duty. The outlook seemed dark for a time, as we had an absolute refusal at first.

Now in those days King Nullus greatly desired to possess the treasures that were hid in the cave beneath his palace; but the king and his people feared to enter the darkness of the cave less they might be destroyed by the Terror which dwelt therein. And in the night there appeared unto the king a vision, and the voice of the vision spake unto the king and said —" Let the king cause the darkness to be removed from the cave, and behold, the Terror will flee away, and what then shall hinder that the king shall possess the treasures of the cave?" And sleep fled from the eyes of the king, for he said, "The desire of my soul is at hand.

To one who has gained any understanding of the Principle taught by Christian Science, it seems strange that the Bible has been read during all these years with so little real conception of what the words actually teach. I am not one to cry down other systems of religion, or make sweeping charges against others.