Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-10-11


Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
Christian Science, the Science Of
Christ, was discovered nearly three
quarters Of a century ago. "Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures," written by Mrs. Eddy, was
published in 1875. Is it not high time
for you and me to cognize more fully
the things of God as revealed in the
Scriptures and in Science and Health?
Is it not high time for you and me to
"gather what eye hath not seen"
(Mis. 82:11), and to set our feet more
firmly in the upward way? The very
term Christian Science designates both
Science and religion, the religion and
Science Of Jesus Christ. But does not
the human mind and heart tend to
wards perfunctory religion and wor-
ship, and away from true Science?
A frank and impartial survey Of
society, and Of our individual selves,
impels the conclusion that today there
is grave need to rise above the dead
ness and deadliness or Journalism, the
perfunctoriness Of religion Of the
head, and the mere emotions and SEN
timentalism Of the human heart. Too
many people seem content to declare
God is Love, and expect that declara-
ton alone to keep their feet from
tripping and their faces from shifting
the earth. Too many are 50 over-oceu-
pied in the mere material activities Of
the church, Of society, Of business, Of
pleasure seeking, that they find little
time to pray their way above the let
ter into the light and power Of true
spirituality. All this clinging to earth,
all this tilling the soil inclines one to
look no higher than the letter, the.
symbol, and so to fail to see the real
ity beyond the symbol. Without a
spiritual sense Of values one cannot
really understand the poet Words
worth's rebuke of materialism in the
lines:
"A promise by rivers brim
A yellow primrose was to him.
And it was nothing more"
How much more even a yellow prim-
rose shall be to you and me must de-
pend on how far we, individually, push
our growth in Spirit above the mate
rial, into the reality Of the ideas the
human concepts so inadequately rep
resent. The poets immortal, verse as
sures us: "as we rise, the symbols
(Hymnal 1857.
SCIENCE AND SYSTEM
Christian Science is true Science;
indeed, it is the only absolute Science.
Outside the Science Of Christ all is
finite, vague and conjectural.
Even the so-called exact sciences, such
as music and mathematics, are far
from exact in the absolute sense, and
are at best, but symbols Of the true
Science Of tones and numbers. But
because Christian Science is true Sci
ence, it is also true religion, for Chris
lion Science translates thought into
Spirit. And, to quote Mrs. Eddy:
Christian Science translates Mind,
God, to mortals. It is the infinite cal
culus defining the line, plane, space,
and fourth dimension of Spirit" (Mfs.
p. 22). This is the point, the line,
plane, space and fourth dimension Of
Spirit, where physicists must find
and some even today pre-
dict that to continue to progress they
must abandon matter as fully ex-
planned away, and begin the study Of
the infinite calculus. Mrs. Eddy has
warned that this true Science is $50
far in advance of human knowledge
that mortals must work for the dis
covery of even q portion Of it." (Mis.
p. 22). Being wholly spiritual the in
finite calculus must be spiritually dis
cerned. And surely Mrs. Eddy must
have known how hard the discovery
came, and with what unremitting toll
and self-abnegation. In Science and
Health she asks: "Has God no Science
to declare Mind, while matter il gov
erned by unerring intelligence" Up.
546). Mrs. Eddy not only discovered
the Science of Christ but she proved
it to be both Science and Christian,
employing it to heal and save on a
purely spiritual, divine basis. That
these proofs are not more uniformly
made today denotes a deficiency in
Christians of both Science and Chris
tianity, and a crying need for spirit
ual growth and working knowledge
of this Science. Mrs. Eddy clearly
indicates that the demonstration Of
the divine Principle of Christian Sci
ence which heals and saves, prevents
error. and establishes and maintains
harmony and normality, can be made
with system, form, rules, law; and
that, imbued with spiritual power,
these elements of true Science are
consonant with spiritual understand
ing or the consciousness Of Truth.
That a definite system is taught In
the Christian Science textbook. is in