Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-10


Science, Theology and Medicine -
Undsrsood In Christian Science !
Christian Science, on the other
hand, teaches that there Ii an exact
Science which 10 true to Christ and
Christianity, that there Ia a theology
which il wholly scientific or true.
and that there il a divine healing
method which Is both Christlike and
scientific. These three, this Science,
this theolgy and this healing meth
cd. Christian Science declares to be
eternal. ever present. demonstrable
facts Of being. for they are the
fi'Science OF Life, the theology of
Spirit, and the healing method of
Truth. Christian Science teaches that
these are the divine systems which
| Jesus lived and labored to reveal to
| mankind. In fact these are the sys-
TENS which all reformers have per-
ceived dimly and have iabored to re-
veal to men. Christian Science utter
~ rcfutcs tie suggestion that re-
| formers such as Abraham or Moses,
Luther or Wesley were striving to
bring to humanity some indefinite
and improcticable idealism. It de-
clares without hesitation that they
perceived and understood to some ex-
tent the only real Science, the abso-
lutte Science of spiritual being, which
explains Gods true nature and the
relationship OF true being to God.
the only true theology, the exact.
scientific. saving and redeeming eff
feet of Truth upon human thought,
and the only true healing method.
the infinite ability of spiritual I'M
derstanding or of spiritual thinking
! to deliver from the diseases OF NOR
tai thought and experience. Christian
| Science teaches that these are also
the divine system which are revealed
I and outlined throughout the Scrip
lures and that the Bible is no fairy
story. but rs. when it's teachings are
solute Science, of pure theology and
of scientific healing. Christ Jesus
the Saviour OF men foresaw and
fOretold that these three systems
prevailing the eternal facts OF being
should some day appear to humanity
| in all their certainty and science.
This appearing he foretold as the
coming of "the Spirit of truth"
(John 18. 49, and Christian Scien-
revealed to humanity that for which
men have prayed and suffered, that
for which they have lived and died
and for which they have been will
ing to sacrifice ALL This blessed
thing is the absolute Truth. about
God and about existence. which ex-
presses itself through divine Science,
and which Mary Baker Eddy has dis
covered in this age and founded.
Truly has Whittier written:
"Oh. sometimes CLEANS upon our sight
| Thro' present wrong. TIL ctern3l Right;
! And step by step. since time began,
That all Of good the past beth had
| Remains to make our own time glad,
| our common. daily life divine,
And ev'ry land a Palestine.
| "Thro' the harsh noises Of our day.
A low sweet prelude finds its way;
/ Ihro' clouds Of doubt, and crceds of
| fear.
A light is breaking calm and clear
"Henceforth my heart shall sigh no
| more
For olden time and holier shore:
GODS love and blessing. then and there.
! Are now and here and everywhere"
! 'Christian Science Hymnai. p. 49,
God and His Creation as Understood
| in Christian Science
Let me then invite you to consider
This Science Of the Christ which en-
! bodies. and is based wholly on the
| idealism of Christ Jesus. AS Chris
tan Science pertains wholly to God
and to His creation or to true being,
1t is of course necessary for US to
consider what God is before we can
proceedO
Christian Science declares that God
is an ever-present divine reality.
who is ever available to His own
creation. and is infinitely movable
Ills presence and power. Christian
science teaches. are essential to
every right activity and consequent
! ~ to all health, holiness or happi-
ness, and to all true existence. God,
Christian Science also teaches, has
hothing IN common with materiaIity,
out He and His creation exist indie
pendent OF suppositional matter and
its o-called laws. In fact Christian
Science teaches that God is the
source and cause of all that is true
ana. therefore, of true existence
Inc scriptures use several terms
Tor God which all Christians have
accepted but which few Christians
rave understood practically and in
!eiilSently. Mrs. Eddy has applied
,hese same terms to God. but she has
iEslcaiiH accepted the conclusions
aoout goo which these terms indi-
tate; For instance. the Scriptures
| teach that God is Love. but they
also teach that God is Spirit. com
sequently Mrs. Eddy has concluded
mat Love is Spirit and therefore
mat Love is not to be found in ma.
terlal conditions. Also the Scrip-
/ lures declare that Spirit or God is
lnnn!te and Christian Science like
wise logically concludes that matter
or material existence, is not the
ruth Of being. In the same way
the scriptures teach that God is the
only cause and creator and Christian
Sclence therefore accepts the fact
mat tne only real or true existence
.nere is or can be, must be the
eInahation or expression of this one
ana only cause. God. AS God is i'm
mutable and is without shadow OF
turning, His creation must be an
emanation or expression of inn
mutable Spirit and must consn-
4uently be wholly spiritual.
God as Divine Mind, and Croatia,
Spiritual or Mental
1t is evident to anyone who bas
studled the Scriptures closely that
Mhen Jesus declared God to be Spirit
ne was not declaring God to be some
lnoennite abstraction. but he was re-
.eahng and describing the most Ger.
Jam, the most available and the most
STABLE entity that could possibly he
imagined-Mrs. Eddy has once and
ior all taken this word Spirit ouf NJ
the realm of mysticism and sinner
sutton and placed it in the realm of
reason and science by explaining
mat Spirit is really divine Mind. or
IS tne infinite Intelligence which
Knows. and knows divinely or trulv
~ ID certain that when Jesus used
me- .ne term Spirit he meant divine
n,aiu lor on one occasion he ex-