The Monte Vista journal., 1908-04-11
A COMMUNICATION
lte Vista Journal :

An article by NJ. NJ Nelson, entitled
"Christian Science" in which the writer
i says, among other things: THE whole
philosophy or religion OF Christian Sci
ence hinges on the art of healing while
with Jesus the art of healing was Incl
dental to the great work he came into
Me world to do" Inasmuch as the
writer Of the article is not a Christian
I Scientist it is but natural that he should
$50 mistake the truth about it. His
efforts are like those Of one Who never
having demonstrated single problem
In mathematics, undertakes to prove the
whole subject to be wrong.
The Discoverer and Founder of Chris
tian Science, Rev. Mary. Baker G. Eddy,
states that the emphatic purpose Of
Christian Science is the ..healing OF sin,
and that the healing of.sickness is only
the bugle call to thought and action in
the higher range Of infinite goodness.
fundamental Divine Science, page 81
We read in the Scriptures that when
quire whether he was the Christ or
whether they should look for another,
Jesus said: go and shew John again
those things which ye do hear and see;
The blind receive their sight, and the
lame walk, the:lepers are clesnsed, and
the deaf hear, the dead are raised up,
and the poor have the gospel preached
to them" Matt. IL: 4 5.) At the
.2;lose Of his ministry, the Master said
1iurther: And these signs shall follow
them that believe; In my name shall
they cast out devils; they shall speak
with new tongues; They shall take up
serpents; and il they drink any deadly
thing, 1t shall not hurt them: they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover"
Our friend is also mistaken in the
notion that "a person can be "A graduate
practitioner, to cure all disease. by TAX
ing . few weeks course OF study
While il is true that the course OF in
struction given by sn authorized teacher
oi Christian Science covers no more time
than two weeks, it is equally true that
no one il eligible for class instruction
therein until, through application and
study OF its Principle aud rules, he has
attained to sufficient spiritual under
standing OF the subject TO be able TO
demonstrate it, in a degree at least, posi-
,..tA liza
Nor is any one allowed to hold himself
out to the world as Christian Science
Practitioner who follows any other vo-
cation.
i The gentleman is quite right in the
statement that there are millions OF us
who still think we have material bodies
and that we are still living in n material
world subject to sickness, sin and death.
We not only think it but we know it..
II 10 = stern reality to us, matter Of
solid conviction. The trouble is We
don't know much Of anything else,-but
Christian Science has come To teach us
something else, something better, just ~
natural science has taught us Of the
rotundity and rotation Of the earth
whereas we once knew the earth to liz
dat and stationary.
We all agree that God created the
heaven aud the earth This statement
however. does not disprove the fact tha
God never created matter,-rather does
il prove the truth of it, for God is
Spirit" Mind, Intelligence. Could he
create anything 30 unlike himself M
matter. II may be interesting 10 note
what some OF the leading natural scient
ists teach concerning the origin and real
ity or permansnce of matter. Professor
Wilhelm Oswald Of the University oi
Lsipsic. Germany, says: Matter is u
thing Of thought which We have con.
structed Tor ourselves rather imperfectly
u represent what is permanent in the
change Of phenomena" Likewise Mr..
Huxley writes: After all. what do We
know oe this terrible matter, except ~
the same for the unknown hypothetical
cause oe states Of our own conscious
ness" Grant Allen, J. r. W. Herschcl,
Lord Kelvin and others have voiced the
same convictions regarding matter.
The scientific statement of fact that
IAN IN infinite Mind and its infinite man.
Hesitation" disproves the reality Of mat
tss. but there il nothing in this state.
u,snt " indicst. that matter is not the
only reality 70 material sense. Ia Sci.
IA s,e .s,.