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Christian Science textbook. and
which are far too numerous 10 at
tempt 10 repeat here. came TO her
as her understanding Of God as In
finite good enlarged. They are
part and parcel Of the great reve-
lation Of Christian Science, and
make Christian Science what we
have already declared Il to be
the present-day Saviour Of man.
kind.
The Goal of Proof
From the very beginning Of her
discovery. Mrs. Eddy knew intui-
lively. az Jesus did. that men could
be convinced Of the truth OF the
message she felt impelled TO bring
to them only by demonstration.
Would the revealed Truth now do
what 1t had done in the days Of
the Master Would 1t heal? That
was the question. Mrs. Eddy
recognized that a provable or
demonstrable subject must be sci
entific: il must rest on a solid
basis Of fact, from which unassall-
able deductions might be drawn.
Reversing this reasoning: if physi-
cal headings resulted from her
application of the truth about God
and man. the truth which she had
discerned in the bright light OF
revelation, then il must follow that
that discovery based on fact, solid
fact. must be scientific. Hence. the
name Science: and because this
Science was To be applied TO hu-
man needs, IL was essentially
Christian: in other words. II was
an expression of the Christ. This
is why she called her discovery
Christian Science, as was pointed
out in the beginning.
The goal of proof which Mrs
Eddy now set for herself was
healing. She proved the correct
ness. that is. the Science and the
Christianity of her revelation. by
healing others. She healed those
who came to her, and on occasion
went voluntarily to those of whose
need she learned. Such help was
even extended to those who had
been given up to die by attending
physicians. Thus, from the very
beginning, Mrs. Eddy's enlarging
understanding of the truth she had
discovered was based on a solid
foundation of proof. She later
wrote in regard to this vital point
(Science and Health, p. 140: The
demonstration of the rules of sci
entific healing will plant you
firmly on the spiritual groundwork
of Christian Science. This proof
lifts you high above the perishing
fossils of theories already anti
quated. and enables you to grasp
the spiritual facts of being hither-
TO unattained and seemingly dim. !"
Accommodating proofs during
that early period of development
of her discovery convinced her be-
yond question that the method she
was employing was the method of
the Master Christian. 1t was divine
because it had in it no human
mode nor process. Thus she could
declare. as she does on page 476
of her textbook, that Jesus beheld
in Science the perfect man, who
to him where SHINING
mortal man appears to mortals. In
this perfect man the Saviour saw
Gods own likeness, and this cor
rect view of man healed the sick"
She discerned that Jesus method
included a refusal to see the sick
or dying mortals humans see.
through or beyond the
mortal concept of man, Jesus per-
ceived the real man. the man made
in the image and likeness of God.
This exact and true seeing en-
abled him to heal the sick. Mrs.
Eddy was convinced that her dis
covery and the method of healing
resulting from it were divine,
Christian, and scientific, because it
conceded so perfectly with this
Christ-method of healing.
The ChristMethod OF Healing
Explained
What is this Christ method
which Mrs Eddy rediscovered and
used to heal the sick in the nine
teenth century as Jesus did in the
first half century of the Christian
era? This question il no doubt
very much in the minds of those
among you who are hearing about
Christian Science for the first
time. You probably also want to
know the difference between what
Christian Science considers the
10 be and that
which Christians generally con-
slider IL to be. The difference Is
this: while all genuine Christians
believe implicitly in the healings of
Jesus. many, if not most of them.
consider these healings to have
been miraculous. that is. contrary
to. or above those so-called laws
which seem to govern humans and
their activities. They believe these
healings to have been part of a
which ended with the
presence of the Master and his
followers
Christian Science takes an oppo-
site view. II says that the mar
velous ability of Jesus lay in his
knowledge of a superior law. the
law of God, the Christian, his
knowledge that there was in real
itv no other law. his knowledge
that the presence of that Christ
law is constant. that ii existed
from the beginning. and that its
presence must inevitably continue
for all time To come. Christian
Science declares that Jesus knowl-
edge OF the ever-presence Of this
divine law enabled him TO snnul
on many occasions, the false So
called laws of the human or mortal
mind. Thus the Christian Science