The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-11-18
Tristan Science Is Termed Gods
Word of Eternal Life By Lecturer

I'LL 1otAoA oSACuCe, ludC GOQ>S
prmises are kept in our time by the
proofs of helping and reformation
we have SEEN.
Mrs. Eddy's Discovery of the Word
The Psalmist wrote, HE sent
his word, and healed them, and
delivered them from their destruc-
ton" Cps. 107:20). Mrs. Eddy's in
Simultaneous healing from what were
considered the fatal effects of fall
on the ice in 1866 is known to most
Of us. What is not so generally
know, however, is that her many
years + suffering were caused by
the misinterpretation of the Scrip
lures in her early training. (See
Miscellaneous Writings, p. 1897
Mrs. Eddy says that Truth,
spiritually discerned, is scienifi-
cally understood" (Science and
Health, p. 275). If one reads the
Bible, and spiritually discerns the
truth of what he is reading, he
grasps the scientific understanding
of what he is reading. That is what
happened When, in 1866, Mrs. Ed
dy read the Bible account of Jesus
healing OF a sick man. She grasped
the spiritual meaning of that heal
ing and Immediately understood it
scientifically, and just as immedi-
ately she was healed. To use her
own language: when the under
standing of Scriuture-meanings had
come physical rejuvenation. The
uplifting of spirit was the upbuild-
ing of the body miscellaneous
Writings. p. 1872.
Mrs. Eddy apparently needed
that trying experience to awaken
her to higher. demonstration of
life in God, that the world might
know Of Minds. supremacy over
matter. For over 20 years she had
been trying to trace all physical
effects to mental cause, but it
was not until, this healing that she
fully realized that "all causation
was Mind, and every effect men
tai phenomenon" '(Retrospection
and Introspection, p. pa.
With this basic discovery she set
to work to gain the scientific mean
ing of the Bibles teachings. AS the
ideas of God unfolded, ideas which
were to rock the very foundations
of material PHILOSOPHY, science,
and medicine. she wrote them
down, and when her three years
search was ended, she had found
the divine laws of Life, Truth, and
Love, and then she was led by God
to name her discovery "Christian
Science"
Realizing that statements of her
discovery should be proved before
they were given the public in
printed form. she spent the greater
part of the next six years testing
her theory OF Minds's control over
the body. She was most success
full in this, showing, she said, that
Truth had lost none Of its divine
and heading efficacy (Science and
Health, p. 147). So nine years were
consecrated to the sacred word of
discovering and demonstrating for
the sake of humanity the Science of
Christianity.
All Science must be Christian,
and Christianity must be scientific.
Without Christianity or love, Sci
ence would be dead. And without
Science or truth, Christianity would
be chaotic, that is, without Princi-
pie or basis for reasoning. Christian
Science is as truly the revealed
Word of God as the inspired writ
ings of the Old and New Tesla
ments.
Christian Scientists, having en-
joyed for so long the blessings
which The Mother Church provides,
sometimes forget to let their non
Science friends know what they are
missing. One of the institutional
activities of The Mother Church in
Boston is The Christian Science
Publishing Society, which helps to
make practical the definition of
Church" found in the textbook.
For the information of our guests
let me read it (p.583):
Church. The structure of Truth
and Love; whatever rests upon and
proceeds from divine Principle.
The Church is that institution,
which affords proof of its utility
and is found elevating the race;
rousing the dormant understanding
from material beliefs to the appre-
hension of spiritual ideas and the
demonstration of divine Science,
thereby casting out devils, or error,
and healing the sick.'
Proof of the usefulness Of The
Mother Church is being shown in
the literature provided, not only for
members of branch churches and
societies Of The Mother Church,
but also for countless other read
ers of it's many publications, which
includes the Journal, Heralds, Sen
tinel, and The Christian Science
Monitor.
The Christian Science Quarterly
(Bible Lessons) is another of our
publications, about which I wish to
speak in some detail. 1t is issued
four times yearly, as its name i'm
plies, and it gives the student of
Christian Science, whether begin
ner or seasoned worker, real as