Arizona republican., 1917-09-22
The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor
 The fact that Christian Science is leSSening the sum total of sin, sickness and disaster contains great reaSSur- ance for the human race. The human herat is turning to it's teaching for help, and finding perfect remedy and a clear answer to all it's questions. Christian Science is, therefore, the greatest thing in the world and the noly hope of humanity. After long centuries of preparation the seed that was sOwed by Christ Jesus is growing up Aand nineteen hundred and sixteen is begin ming to reap the harvest This age, be- cause there is more readiness to re- ceive than at the former periods of the
 worlds history, becomes the recipient of the greatest blessing of all time the exact knowledge of God. Science and Health with Key to the Scrip
 tures," the textbook of Christian Sci ence, contains the full statement of this knowledge, and those who run may
 read and learn about it. Mrs Eddy,
 it's author. made a statement identical
 substantially with that of the Founder of Christianity, when she wrote on
 page no, No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this
 book, Science and Health; and neither
 tongue nor pen can overthrow it..
 Christ Jesus said, Heaven and earth
 shall pass away, but my words shall
 not pass away"
 The centuries that intervened be-
 tween Jesus first statement of Chris
 tiarity, and Mrs. Eddys rediscovery ot
 the truth, through her understanding
 Of his statement have been centuries
 of gradual development. The truth
 proclaimed by Jesus has been at work creating througho it's inevitable vital i ity better and so more receptive, at titude in humankind. Realizing. as il can be realized today, owing to th4 teaching of Christian Science, the vast ness of the revelation Jesus gave. anC looking back over the interval between his day and ours, it might seem as iI 1 his words had practically been lost, SC utterly without proof were they for SC long period, but that would be mis- take, because those words were the eX- pression of the eternal ever-acting re- ality. That fact made Jesus words | immortal, and the knowledge whicl
 urged him to speak was. as it were i put into the mass of human thought there to act as a leaven That leaver i has been always at work He spoke tC
 a densely material age, but his clear 1 penetrating and spiritual vision gauget accurately the value of spiritual truth | adn so he could say with certainty tha 1 his words could not pass away. Power l he apprehended as Spirit, and mate i riality as pOwerlessness. and so h. i knew that the material senses could 1 not forever hide the truth.
 i When Christian Science is under l stood. even in a measure, it reveals tn. magnitude of Christ Jesus revelation 1 to the world; then it is plainly dis cerned that the action of his piercing understanding of Spirit was, to tn 1 carnal mind. like the sowing of tn 1 seed which must grow to the carna i minds ultimate destruction. Indeed | the living truth is the seed within it ] self, of which the growth is inevitable 1 Truth and error cannot dwell together so the truth has been gradually under 1 mining the opposition which the carna 1 mind chedishes towards God. divin 1 Principle, and today witnesses the full fledged idea of Christian healing, GO | ing wonders among men. Wonders
 that is. to the material senses whicl