Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-19

IN lNtb ATS. LQNF was Instantly
healed of the results OF serious acct
dent through the spiritual understand
Ing Of a passage iu Matthew gospel
The light that burst upon her con
seriousness in that hour of need was the
result Of many years prayer, meclta-
tIon and study Of the Scriptures. The
world Of the nineteenth century, IN which
Mrs Eddy made the discovery Of the
uoWer and availability of Spirit, was
stepped I'm materIali-m. and there was a
tendency to base reasoning upon matter
and physical science. Mrs. Eddy took
issue with the thinkers of the nineteenth
century, who for the most part reasoned
from a matter basis She saw clearly
that they reasoned wrongly. She discOv-
cred that All Is Infinite Mind and It's
Infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-
all (Science and Health. p. 4GS) In
other words, she discovered that the uni
verse has a spiritual cause and not Il
physical There is but one cause, God,
one effect, man and the universe. But
she did not stop there. Her further
researches led her to distinguish between
the divine Mind, its qualities and ideas,
and the phenomena Of matter and evil.
which she termed mortal mind, Or,-to
use St. PauIs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
mind. She saw that the two were oppO-
sites, and that the divine Mind and It's
universe Of ideas only, can be true. Mrs.
Eddy also saw that the eXactness, logic,
Oruer, coordination, OuLlIullgt anu law
Of God was the only real Science, which
she named Divine Science. For centuries
men had been led to believe that reli-
gion and Science had nothing in com
mon, that the acceptance of the dtcta Of
natural science was tantamOunt to dis
belief I'm God. Mrs. Eddy saw that re-
ligiOn and Science were one and the same,
both carnations from the divine Mind.
True Science is wholly spiritual and
destroys the human counterfeit science
In so far AS the latter is based on mat
ter and mortality. When Mrs. EDDY
grasped the mighty fact that God is the
only Mind and cause, she saw that she
had a mission to perform for the race,
and that mission was to pierce with
spiritual vision the dark clouds Of mat
ter, mortality, fear and sin, cast over
the whole human race; to dispense these
clouds with the reflected light of spiritual
understanding, and to reinstate In human
consciousness the healing leaven of
the Science of the one onlnipotent Mind.
And so she began her work by test
ing her discovery. She tested 1t by heal
ing the Sick.-many of them instanta-
neOusIy.-by breaking the bondage Of
sin, and by the spiritual light and free
dom her followers experienced, who, with
unbiased thought. honestly sought to
know the truth that maketh free In
1ST5-nine years after her healing she
gave to the world the textbook of Chris
tian Science. Science\and Health with
key 10 the CflpLuEeS, q DOCK, the mere
reading Of which has healed thousands
Of the various Ills that flesh seems to be
heir to; a book which has done more to
revolutionize the thoughts Of men re-
garding the truths Of the Bible than any
other book that has ever been written
Sometimes critics will assert that the
textbook Of Christian Science is illogical
and contradictory, but these critics ut
terly fail to grasp Mrs. Eddy's viewpoint
As a matter Of fact, there is not an Hog
ical or contradictory statement in the
book. for the simple reason that all it's
promises and conclusions are founded
on God, Spirit, as the only power, cause
and creator. Speaking Of her experience
at this time, Mrs. Eddy wrote in Science
ana Health (p 10) In following these
leadings Of scientific revelation, the Bible
was my only textbook. The Scriptures
were illumned; reason and revelation
were reconciled, and afterwards the
truth Of Christian Science was dem
onstrated No human pen nor tongue
taught me the Science contained in this
book, Science and Health: and neither
tongue nor pen can overthrow 1t. This
book may be distorted by shallow criti-
cism or by careless or malicious stu