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Show • THE JORDAN JOURNAL ... CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE~~~ ------ . By Professor Hermann S. Hering, C. S. B. NEED OF SALVATION them. He gave proof, however, of sonalities whose advancing thought true followers, because they have textbook of Christian Science, The history of spiritual develop- the correctness of his doctrine which could perceive Truth, and progres- 1proved for themselves the truth of growth, are clearly set forth in the ment may be traced both in the Bible 1 amply controv:erted all opponents ~nd sively recognize a higher sense of l·her teachings sufficiently to be con· "Science and Health with Key to the . . I thus gave this followers a workmg spiritual reality. This J,Vadually les- vinced of the spiritual authority of Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy. I narratives and m subsequent event~. I basis upon which to perpetuate his sened the obscuring darkness until it 1 these teachings. Nor can misrepre- Mrs. Eddy has also written other are two records of creation ' mission. was finally dispelled. Divine Truth : sentation shake her position before books all of which emphasize, eluci.....,....."" delivered in the Salt Lake Auditorium under the auspices There To be accounted a Christian in has been forever at work, but there the world, which is already aware of date, and amplify these teachings in given in Genesis. The first, called of First Church of Christ, ~cientist of Salt Lake City, Sunday the Elohistic record, presented in the those early days meant to have that could _be no respon;;e without z·ecep- thl'! value and rightness of Christian a variety of forms. Anyone can learn February 14, by Professor Hermann S. Hering, C. S. B. of opening chapter and in the first foul:' l faith in God \.~hich Jesus .taught; 1t tivity. • Science. exactly what Christian Science verses of the second, tells of the per-, meant to recognize and acknowledge THE COMFORTER An admirer of her work, a man of teaches by reading and studying these Boston, member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother feet, spiritual, an~ coi?plete creation Christ Jesus, to demonstrat_e spirit~al ·Jesus once said to his followers standing and affairs, said of her years books, and it is only in this way that Church, The First of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Mass. made by the one mfimte and perfect · power and to sacrifice all mterfenng that he had much to tell them but ago, "Time is her ally." How true the revelation can be seen free from . h t b God, called Elohim, in which creation 11 material things. In a word, it meant that they could not bear 1t at that I this is, for every day adds to the On account of the necessa'l"" brevChristian Science is admittedly & arouse t! some astoms men , a num er t h ere IS · no rna tte r, no ev1·1 , and h ence 1 actually to live a Christly life. time, and he promised to send the honor and esteem in which she is held misinterpretation. " of years elapsed after she began th;s f 1 t· h b · subject of worlU.-wlde interest. Al no need o sa va wn, t ere emg l· Gradually, however, Christianity be- Comforter in his name wh.o would by well-informed people. ity of this presentation of the subhealing work before she found a few hi h b d most every thoughtful person in the nothing from w c to e save · came more popular, and the Chris- reveal all ~ Truth. This Comforter .is TH'~ "·• OTHE'R CHURCH J·ect, it must suffice to call attent1'on who wanted to knowh how the · t•lC tians grew to be a potential political Christian Science, the 'reappearing of "" "u 1, ca11ed t h e J e h ov1s civilized world has heard its name persons Th h In the seconc to the fact that Cllristian Science is . d hea1mg was one. ese s e taug t d d b · · 'th h te • The position of The Mother Church and has in his circle of acquaintance and as she had no textbook or othe:r recor ' an . e~m:mntgh WI d cG adp r power ~nd agenc~. Th~ Emperor the Christ, the impersonal messen· in the Christian Science movement, based fundamentally upon God. Consome one who has bl•en benefited by .r h d 't' h d t two, verse s1x, 1t IS e Lor o or Constantme, observmg this, adopted ger coming through the clouds, as sequently, we need to consider for a r is tills interest confined alone p:tJt~ e _wn ~g~, sf e h rna te n~. es 1 tribal Jehovah, not Elohim, who is Christianity and made it a state re- prophesied, establishing the whole together with its relation to the moment what Christian Science No o d ~ mal mt dpOlhn o er heac ltng credited both with creating all things ligion, thus winning greatly extended T tb branch churches and societies, needs English-speaking people, but in- an circu a e t em among er s u. 1 b · f d t--- . ru · . . . to be clearly seen in order that its teaches regarding God. Mrs. Eddy -l·nr·ormed clas•es of Sh materia as1s out o us I mfluence and support. Many devout, sp1ntually mmded , . . b defines God as follows· "The great t d hl t on a t 1 1 .• o;;''"u''"' the Well ~ ten'tls. d "Th e a er preparef ,..a pamp eh w h erever tha t came f rom-an d Wl'th ·j This . occurred about t h ree centunes . . . . . u 1essiamc purpose can e rightly ap. · S . , hi persons recelVed divme hght, caugl1tj ·ated I AM·, the all-knowmg all-seeing allt1 e Vll'tually all nationalities. en e cience o man w c · t d · 'I Th' d d . . · .. t h d . prec1 . . . ' ' . f bl' h d k, · b m ro ucmg evi . IS secon recor , ; after Jesus' crucifixwn. Durmg those g 11mpses o spin ua 1 trut , unn"' . actmg, all-w1se, all-loving, and eter. h ' fi t .l:'erhaps no other religiousso subJeCt . . . "' Mrs. Edd "ei·n tl·mes has become widely was er rs pu .IS e wor , . ' to . e or At! am and E ve concept , Mrs. EddY years sp1ntual healmg had been the period of this transforming vf ' Y b. egan m a ver~ sma ll nal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; mo u used ~~ s~udents. m connectwn Wl:h calls the "Adam-dream", for Adam practised quite generally by th~: consciousness just considered. But way to orgamze a church With her Life· Truth· Love· all substance · · and attracted attention in so her class mstructwn. ~er studenvs had fallen into "'a deep sleep"; and Christians. After }Irs. Eddy was the only one who re- few stud. ents and interested friends, tellig'ence" ,(Scienc'e and Heald, !Up. qua1·ters of the globe. 1'here learned to do the healmg work and h · d f hi h · . . . . . d t 1 ft th t "" iew countries in which its liter th C f Cl . t• S . b t ere IS no recor o s ever avmg that period, the heahng activities ceived the full light, who remained at! an as l grew e . e managem~n 587). 0 e ause lriS Jan Clence egan awakened. Here begins the history lessened until they practically disap- the task of working out the signifi-1 more and more to Its members. ExTh d p · · 1 · h •••uc is not read, for translations into to grow. • • •• , rmc1p ere emof 1mman evi 1, or error, an d h uman- I peared. To be accounted a Christian, cance of this hght and who reduced penence compe 11ed h er, h O\\ever, as 1 1 ed wor f eth 1s · ten or more languages !lave been Several years later in 1875, she ii.y's consequent need of salvation. from that time on, was simply a her discoveries to the basis of a de- a mat~er otfh safhety, hto dis_slolve a~dfre- i ~a~!s :: ~~~s ofor D:ity~~:y~~~= published her epoch-making textbook, This record predictes an entirely matter of ceremonial baptism and the monstrable Science orgamze e c urc unti a satls ac- . f ll 0 f thi th h f . Unfortunately, however, there a~:el "Science and Health with Key to the d'ff t t f God , man, and un- , forma 1 ac kn ow1ed gement of a creet1, 0 ne man, . Chnst · Jesus, · · few tory method of . government was de- IS u as creator s oug t? orand lt right" speaks 1 eren concep o and his . of God as "Just who have a wrong concept of I Scr~ptures,"-a truly marvelous iverse from that described in the first t the demonstration of spiri~ual power disciples and apostles left such an Vlsed as found m the present Mother . d, 1 . h' teachings of Chri;;tian "' '-'cience, of .· achievement when one understands recor d, m · d eed the t wo recorus -' ar<! being no longer essential. The Chris- impression upon the ' world through Church· Thi s f orm 0 f dasf' governor, JU ge, awglVer, t · H' b · f d t• us 1 accomp11· ~hments, its purpose and 1 the attending circumstances. It is of cont ra d' · s t a t e of tian religion became a thing • of form. the1r · t't e mmg origin, Im asand asls, oun which a IOn, • • • ~ ,1c t ory. Thi s mesmenc teachmg and _healmg that, ol- governme n t • ms I u t ed b Y h er, re- Cause, so forth, its Discoverer and Founder. Hence interest to note that she ~as always . thought which believed in a material IThe spirit of Christianity was appar- though endangered, It has endured up quires the Board of Directors, instead · divine Principle is. is especially for the benefit of these I a very close student of thiS book and cr·eator a n d a mater1·a 1 creat'wn, a s entl y 1ost . t o th e. presen t d ay. M.rs. Edd y's dis· of the members, to administer the It is not a difficult step from Printhough also to recall to the i pondered it daily. Indeed, it was her uttere~ by a tal~ing ~erpent, which is 1 Although the clouds of material co very and demonstratwn of the true By-laws. She saw that this pro- ciple to 1 AM th G d . of Christian Scientists whatjlifelong study. She made frequent matenal sensatwn, lS the so-called , sense had rolled back sufficiently to divine Principle of this teaching and cedure would simplify the whole sitd d to h , . e nam.e o _ls realrea~y know,, t.hat the general I alteration~ and ~evisions for the p~r- original sin which led to disobedience, I let the divine sunlight of Jesus' com- healing . has scientifically establish.id · uation and safeguard the business af- cor .~ t M ave, g~ven. Himself. m anq,u.es·twn ot the ongm .~d develop- pose of In:p~ovmg her presentatwn saffering, and loss-and still does. I ing appear, yet the world's hatred of Christ's Christianity in this age, and 1 fa~r~ of the church as ~ell as. the swte~ 0 ·t~seGs d/nqillkry. !This, :'toof the Chris~Ian Sc1ence ~?~e- of the subJec:, but the fund_a.mentals I Salvation from the Adam and Eve Christianity, its hatred of spirituality, will extend the Christ-power through- I spmtual welfare of all Its various g~ 1e(. Wl do. sfi ~c now edged al....,,.,., togeth~r Wl~h the ac_tlvities of her revelatwn always remamed th; belief, therefore, requires an awaken- again obscured this light, once more 0 t ll t' activities. At the same time she re- mig 1 mess an m mty and the freconstitut~ 1ts part m . t~e same. , I ing from this material mesmerism to hiding it by dogma and ritualism. , u r:RS.~~DY'S LEADERSHIP quired and expected of all the mem- que~t r.ecords of the voice of God to world's redemption, wul be bnefly ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES , the consciousness of the real, spirit- I, SE'•'D OF TRUTH I~·MORTAL . B , M Edd th D'· bers loyal "' -·~ . ecau,e rs. Y was e I:s. . . support of these . provisions pat;Ia:chs, ly md1catesprophets, God to and be others, Mind Sl!,rethtl 1 WIJitu~••:~•o::u. •' , I Mrs. E?dy at first conducted pri·:-j ual creation as r~corded in :he fir~t The seed of spiritual truth, how- coverer and, Founder of Christian and mdlvldual demonstratwn of the · · · ,· . . ' THE DISCOVER~ · structure of Truth and mfimte II ate meetmgs. and later gave pubhc 1chapter. o.f .Genes1s. In rna.kmg tlus ever, which was sown by Jesus, hi~. s c1ence, an d b ecause s h e,• a 1one· estab- church , as "the . Spirit mtelngence, is the nameorofomnlSClence. Deit which clearly. lectur~s, ~ntil the need of a church 1 analys1s It IS helpful to thmk of the disciples, and his followers during lished the movement and inaugurated Love (Science and Health, p. 583) · h y other 1 t tb 00 k IS usee per aps more than any · · . · d fi d · 1 t b t I d that Christian Science is a dis- orgamza 1on ecame apparen · l · secon record as a kind of mist or those early years possessed immortal 1ts mstitutwns. and policies and es- so e ne m our ex • · h B'bl Th' . "'~'""v, not an invention nor a formu- 1879 she founded the church in Bos- : veil, a mental cloud which hides the 1 life and like y~ast it leavened hu- pecially becaus~ of her de~onstrated .Mrs. Eddy prepared the By-laws of llHn. t e I. e. IS term makes plam ' • • u h use tts, k nown as tl1e d'1vme . . 11t, and w h'1ch must be rent 1 man' consciousness. 'r h e M0 ther Churc h Wl'th grea t care. thISt omniprecense and allness, and 1Ig theory. Tllis discovery was t on, l'~assac After several c.en- .understanding of Christian Science, h d' · 1 by .Mary Baker Eddy in the "Church of Christ, Scientist," the 1or dispelled in order that the light turies this truth again appeared in she ~ nafurally became the human They were not provided in advance of ~ .tt ~ ;vme creation is wholly 'the Christian Scientists.· the needs they were formulated to spin ua ' or only immaterial sub1866, and came about in this first Christian Science church_ in. the of spiritual Truth may again come I flashes as it were, through me~tal- Leader 1 : Mrs. Eddy, as a child, had been world. Later,_ branch o. r_gamzatwns to human consciousness. ities spiritual enough to feel its Those of her students and followers 1 meet, but Spirit, is indestructible, eter· Sh were the result of exper- stance, nal, infinite. d h t f au""" by her mother that God couiJ were orme m ot er CI Jes, as. perPROGRESS OF SALVATION power, and see its light, in spite of in the early days who recognized her Ience. e has written regarding would heal the sick. She learn- sons were healed and became mterThe Scriptures narrate how, at var- the aggressive materialistic doctrines as such, were deeply appreciative of • them, '·They sprang from necessity, All Christendom is familiar with believe implicitly in the Bible ested. ious crises in humanity's history, a which were aimed at the suppression her work and were glad .and grateful the logic of events,-from the imme- the God of Truth who is Life, as the and in the supremacy of This Boston church in 1892 became saving thought found a hearing in of its spirit. These spil'itual thinkers for her teachings, her advice and diate demand for them as a help that Bible teaches. Christian Science repower, and she never lost The First Church of Christ Scientist 1 some advanced mentality, through J greatly aided in preparing the her admonitions. ' Those who refused ~ust be supplied to maintain the dig- affirms this teaching and demonTl M th Ch th' which it appealed to the people of its thought of the world for the success- 1 to recognize her as a teacher sent mty and defense of our Caus ~" strates the omnipotent, eternal acconviction. d 0 When trouble came upon her an ' as le ... er urc ' ':as . e , time and led them out of ignorance : ful reformation which shortly fol- from God and a safe Leader· drifted 1 (Church .Manual, p. 3.) These By- tuality which divinity really is. d d k · t b tt t t th · 1 laws were d t th B d f Finally, we find the greatest Scrip. ' central church of the denommatwn. the loss of her dearly belov- The services were held in small halls an 'tar nessbu: ohta .e er sdathe~ .us, lowed. . . I awal~ from her. So~e started mental DI. ·tor·s . pdroptodse o d ed oar od t l d fi ·r f G0 d . h mother her husband the subse. . . as I were, ng enmg an mnmg WychfTe Luther Calvm John hea mg methods whtch .were antag·onrec , a ope , amen e , remove ura e m wn ° m t e repeatplot 'to take her chlld and late~ untll 1894 •. when the ongmal Mot~er the clouds of material sense which ob- Knox and ~ther refo~mers w~re clear istic to Christian Science and still published or not published by them, ed declaration made by St. John,' Church ed1fice was completed whten d th · · f G d di · I ' f . ! just as .M Edd ' .· d · · · d "God is love" (I John 4 :16), the ten'" eir Vlew o o as vme and ~ourageous co~rectors of wrong are.h Re usmg to _be obedient to her ! by praye:s. d y ~ ·~Is 1omd, mspitr~ der, preserving, guiding Fatherdomestic unhar. piness, pov· was followed by greatly in'creased S~c~r?t and invalidism she still clung an spin ua emons rc\- .M h . p1n · I . teachmg and champwns of freedom of teac ings · they failed to grasp or to to the Scriptures constantly growt~. or:we1vef Yt~rs 1~~~r, m 1t9.00 • 1 Thus Noah, at one crisis, saved -a thought, bringing the Bible, ~od's be saved by the Truth she taught and tion, dictated. ot er; all-good, all-wise, all-har• "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE WORLD'S REDEMPTION" 1 I • • I I I i of h I I I an explanatwn ~f the Bible an ex enswn o s e l cde ds~a mg- remnant of the peo.vle from utter i Word to all the people. The re- consequently became her enemies I Directors, adopted, amended, removed, monious, thus completing the perover 5 000 persons was e IcatcJ. 1 d ·t t· L tt Ab 1 thr . ' . . . · 1 w e see, . th en, th a t The "Moth er feet correlation with the Bible of Mrs. She carefully investigated Th ' h d d f h h , es rue wn. a er ra 1am, ougo formers were hke rays of hght breakThose who cla1m to have a new or Eddy's scientific defiru'ti'on of God's curative systems and looked in- d:fire arbe n°'"': un re hs °Chc. ut:c his sense of fidelity and obedience, ing through the clouds and shining a higher revelation who claim to Church, The First Church of Christ, . e 1 ces e1ongmg to t e ns wn 1 t d f ·d t th h' . . . . ' s · t' t · B t hi ·h · nature and character. anythmg that promised to explain S . d . . d 1 urne rom l o1a ry, or e wors Ip m the darkness lllummg that dark- have an Improvement on Mrs Eddy's cien ts • m os on, w c was ongthe so-called miracles of the Cle~ce enommatwn an _many more of matter, to the worship of the one. ' teachings through an interpretation inated and established by Mrs. Eddy So also do the teachings of the are m course of constructwn. j · ,· 'bl G d d b h f h ness. ' . . ·, .· ·u d b h th h h Bible and of Christian Science coinwere performed but she found . . lnHSl e o an ecame t e at er A number of later reformers and based upon their own concepts m-' IIs ::>t.l g?verne Y er roug t e 'd lotJlLng to satisfy her' search. Ch~rst:. EdSd:. estabhs~e:. fIr~t dof a1 nation thr1ough which spiritu~l other Protestants sought refuge m ~tead of upon a, correct understand- fBy-lawths, lnhherhM.anuahil,_ ahnd is, the~e- ~~ee ..~~a~~li~~d t~~e:e:; ,~~;· t~:d~o~n Finally, after an accident, which ns Jan cie~ce peno ~ca m '' eve opmen~ cou d advance on a ba:us the north of Ireland. Persecution con- mg of Mrs. Eddy's statement of her ?re, _e c urc m w .c the Chr1s' physician declared would be fatal, a monthly ~u~ltcatw_n whlch she nam- I of monothelsm. tinued, however, and after their pro- discovery, thereby prove that they ban Sclence movement lS anchored. not of dust, and the real universe, opened her Bible, as was her ed The Chnsti.an Science Journal and , .Then foll_owed Jacob, who wrestl~d vidential deliverance from the relent- , do. ll£Jt properly ' grasp Christinn l ~HE BRANCH C~UR~H~S. which God saw and pronounced "very and her eyes fell upon the sec- n.Iade ~he officJa~ organ of the church. vnth ~atenal sense and ove~came 1t, less siege of Londonderry in 1689, Scwnce and have not demonstrated it. . ~wmg to g~ogra~h1cal hmi~ti?ns good," not evil. of the ninth chapter of 1o thls have. smce been added two and m consequence was given the which was endured with unwavering Otherwise they would not be looking 1t .Is .not poss1ble for all Chnstwn REDE.MPTION INCLUDES la1~thew: "And behold they brought ot~er m_onthhes, a quarterly now new name of Israel; then Joseph, who faith, they came to America as pio- for something outside of infinity b'lt Sc~enbsts to attend one church. For HEALING him a man sick of the palsy, lying prmted m five la?guages, a weekly, was able to bless his enemies; then neers, hoping here to establish both ' would be spending their time gain- t~s reason, Mrs. Eddy made proviIt should next be seen that Chrisa bed: and Jesus seeing their faith a.nd. tl~e gre~t dally n?wspaper, The Moses, who .separated good from evil their religion and their political ing an understanding of the revela- swn f~r branch churches. S~e ~aw tian Science is the Science of Christunto the sick of the palsy; Son, Chnsban .scwnc; Momtor. The _ag- an~ gave hi~ people the moral law, homes. This they did under great di!- tion of infinity. No one can possibly .that, Since the~e local orgamzatwns ianity, namely, the exact, systelll of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven ~:ega~e Clrcu~ation of these penod- which . was Its first presentation in ficulties. . 1 ~nde.rstand Christian Science in its , ~ere of necess1ty local demonstra- atized, demonstrable knowledge of the " While reading this, she realiz- Icals IS now many hundreds of thou- the history of t~e world; later, 0~ a later gene,ratwn. of t. hese God- i m.fimte full.ness a~d compl.etene~s, tlon~, they must have a purely demo- Christ-teachings and their application 1 clearly that the healing which was sands. 1 prophets, who perceived and announ•;- fearmg, courageous pwneers, the1e without a nght estimate of 1ts D1s- c.ratlc form of government, not one to human redemption. When we unin Jesus' time could be repeated Similar growth is evident in the ed successive steps out of the dark was born in the town of Bow New coverer 'and ' Founder and of her work. ! hke that of The Mother Church. derstand the mission of Christ Jesus . Her thought rested absolutely lecture _work whic~ Mrs. Eddy ina~g- : materialism of their day, into a .c~ear- Hampshire,_ in the year 1821, ~child \ In later., yea:rs, 'Yhile appreciating ! T~e ~onne<:t~on of these branch or- we see that his teachings were intend'God and was lifted above the phy- urated m 1898 w1th a board of five ~r state of thought where spintual endowed w1th the same sturdy, religc, the loyalty of her earnest followers, • ?amzatwns. WI~h The Mother Church ed, by saving mortals from the mis. ious qualities. The mother, a woman Mrs. Eddy re~ognized the fact that 1s ~£. spec1al m~e;est, however. ~n ery, wretchedness, and ungodliness of conditions to a high spiritual members giving occasional lectures. hgh~ unfolded. In this mental state she was There. are now t~e?ty-three members : Fmally, a m.entahty ~as devel~p~d of deepest spiritualit?', believed ~n there was to? tp.ucn dependence upon /1 addition to reqillrmg that a certatn material living, to bring to them salast.antly healed and was able to on th1s board, glVmg between three of such exceptwnal punty and sp1nt- the truth of the Scnptures and m her personahty. Ther.@fore she em- number of members of each branch '<ation-redemption from the world's her bed a~d walk. and four thousand lectures annually uality, that actual communion with the power of God to a remarkable de- phatically and repeatedly urged and church shall be members of The evils;_ not only saving them, but reThis happene~ on the . Sunday fol- throughou~ the world. . . 1?od was possi?le, of s_o high an. ~rder gree. She counted a~ong her friends requested_ her follo:ver.s t~ look to : ];~other Church, Mrs. Eddy also ~ro- deemmg them. the acc1dent, which occurted . Grow~h IS als? seen m the Pubhsh- ras to ~e manifest~d m the ~pmtual s?me ~ho w~r~ far m. adva?ce of .the her teachmgs for gUldance mstead of I ~1ded for a .Lesson-Sermon, . cons1stIt is evident that this redemption a Thursday evening. At this time ~nB' Soc1ety, which Mrs. Eddy started , concep;:?n and m the b1rth of tlmes m rehg1ous and philosophical to h~rself. She saw that the strength J mg of ~electwns from the B1ble a?d includes healing,-moral, mental, and minister and some other friends m a very humble way. It now occu- the Immaculate Jesusu. Here thought. of her Cau.s e and the successful correlat1ve passages from the Chns- physical. The account of Jesus' life had called to inquire after he; pies a large building near the church was a complete rift in the The little child was Mary Baker, growth of her students depended up- tian Science textbook. This Lesson- and works, as given in the New Tesand had found her critical- and employs about seven hundred clouds,. through whic~ God and His wonderfully gifted and very receptive on the degree in' 'Yhich they demon- ' Sermo?, pr~pared by ~ Bible Lesson tament, shows that he always attribill, were waiting in another room. workers. appearmg to humamty were seen of spiritual ideas. Her mother talked strated h~r teachings and made them Comnnttee m Boston, IS read by two uted the healing results he always ohwere therefore astounded to see Thus, from one student in the early clearly, resulting in what is c'\Jmmon- with her a great deal of spiritual their own through understanding, and Readers at the Sunday services in tained to the power of God. Indeed, Eddy presently walk into the seventies, and one church in the year ly recognized in human history as things, and she had many unusual the extent to whi1!h they rose above The Mother Church, as well as in all Jesus' healing was done to call attendressed and completely restored 1879, the growth has been so great 1the coming of Christ, which means spiritual experiences. She was a con- all personal dependence. branch churches and societies. tion to divine power and to awaken health. When asked by them how that in 1925 there were officially list- the comming of the C\J.rist-idea to the stant reader and a deep thinker. After Mrs. Eddy left this earth her She further provided that the the sufferer to a right belief and was healed she replied that she ed about eight thousand practitioners world. , When about to join the church oi followers were c;ompelled to depend Readers of all branch organizations faith in God. not tell them then, but hoped and over two thousand churches and JE_SUS AND CHRISTIANITY her parents in early youth, she re- solely upon her teachings, for they shall be members of The Mother Mrs.. Eddy calls. Christi~n Science Chnst Jesus came, then, because fused to agree to certain doctrinal could no longer appeal to her person- Church and thus be amenable to the the ~clence ?f Mmd-Healmg, metabe able to do so sometime. When societies. physician called, he claimed that RESULT OF SPIRITUAL WORK the spiritual unfoldment of human points, for she had already gaine'd an ally. They then saw, as never before, provisions and discipline of its By- physical heahng, spiritual healing, medicine had cured her but she It must be plain to any unpreju- , consciousness made it possible, be- understanding of the Bible in ad- that Mrs. Eddy's teachings were com- laws. These Readers are, therefore, and so on, and the fact that its heal..,.,.," him the pellets unt~uched in diced thinker that this phenomenal 1 cause the rift in the mental clouds vance of the theological teaching of plete arid supplied every need. Indeed local representatives of The Mother ing is accomplis_h~d by the power of table drawer. growth of the Christian Science 1 clearly revealed the divine light.. It her time. _ they saw that Mrs. Eddy through her Church, governed by it through its ~od, thr~ugh spmtual understanding, Mrs. Eddy was greatly impressed movement is fundamentally a spirit- 1 was thus that he was "sent" by God, FINAL REVELATION writings, was still the lruman mouth- By-laws, and are the mouthpieces IS established . bc;yond doubt today. her healing and by the spiritual ~al o~e, and that t~e outward mater- j just as _the sunlight is sent _when it As she grew older and passed piece of her revelation, not only tell- through whom :r'he . Mother Chur~h T.h~refore. Chnstian S~ience is ~r~ly · • which she experienced at Ial ev1dences are s1mply an external- comes directly from the sun mto the th~ough many bitter trials, there de- ing them what the fundamentals of Lesson-Sermon IS glVen out. This div:me Selene~, the Sc1ence of d1vme 1 time. She felt that she must ization of its acceptance and practice. room as the shades are lifted. It is veloped in her mentality such a clari- Christian Science inchid'e but also definite relation of the branch to the Bemg, the. Science of the Principle of out how this healing was accom- A large proportion of its followers evident that the infinite God has al- fiet!, spiritual quality that finally the through these same writi~gs giving vine metaphysically extends The all. real exls~enc: and of its operation. for she knew that it was first became interested in Christian ways been ever-present, but it re- divine light of Truth broke through advice and admonition regarding their Mother Church throughout the world, Th~s op:ratlon mdudes the inter-re- • spiritual and totally unlike Science through the healing. They' quired much clarification of thought her consciousness as a discovery be- application to , every human circum- notwithstanding the fact, that these latwnship _of all God's creation; and, results of any healing system h!ld been ~nslaved by sin, despair, or to bring this fact to human appre- cause she was ready, able, and willing stance and necessity that might arise local organizations are independent when apphed t~ the solution of hushe had ever before heard of or s1ckness-m many instances had been hension. to hear the Truth be receptive of the in the individual experience of and self-governed. n:an problems, 1t means the redemp- • Withdrawing from soci- given up by physicians as hopeless Christ Jesus was therefore God's spiritual idea and obey its demands. Christian. Scientists or in the moveThe appreciation of this world-wide hon of mortals, through divine power. she devoted the next three years cases-Christian Science healed them, expression, His reflection, His repreThis discovery, that God is infinite ment. , spiritual exten~ion or representation C~RISTIAN SC.IENCE HBALING careful prayerful study of the and they began to read and study the sentative on earth, telling mortals of Mind and that "there is none beside Christian Scientists therefore re- of The Mother Church is a point of Smce the heahng of sin, disease, seeki~g an understanding of subject. This is the usual story. I the truth of being and endeavoring him"; that real · being is wholly cognize the fact that Mrs. Eddy is vital importance in understanding and .all other earthly misery is an esworks. As a result of th1s The Christian Science movement is, to awaken them, through teachil}g spiritual, not material; that man is still their human L~ader, though not Mrs .. Eddy's great. C~use a~d must'be s;nhal part _of the w.or~d's red~mp she gradually received the rev- therefore, the result of works-the and healing to the recognition of the God's spiritual idea not a corporeal present in ' the flesh -a personal obtamed by Chnstmn Scientists in tlon, and smce Chnstwn Sc1ence of the divine Principle of progressive works of Christian Scien- 1 false natu;e of this material, evil mortal-this was th~ complete disap- Leader, though without the element 1rder that their efforts to further br~ng~ _about t~s _healing through the ""''"'"" Christian healing, which she tists, who are continually healing existence and to the understanding of pearance of the clouds of sense, which of material personality. this Cause may be successful. sc~en~Ific ap~hcatwn o_f the :'Christ"the great curative Principle-- themselves and others. the true nature of spiritual existence, made possible the revelation of the Just as in the early days many Christian Scientists recognize mem- P.rmclple," let us cons1der th1s que - • (Retrospection and IntrospecHaving now seen why Christian the supreme power of God and the full radiance of reality. Since Mrs. strayed from her teachings through bership in The Mother Church as tw_n for a _moment, for it involves a '" 25) and which she describe:; Science is a subject of great and perfection of God's man. Tllis right Eddy's revelation thus includes in- the seductive arguments of personal identifying them with the movement pomt that IS much misunderstood. ciJl11inite, divine Mind. grov.:ing interest. in th~ world and is consciousness overcame the Adam finity, absoluteness, and allness, it is opinion and leadership, so in later while membership in a branch church ~hile it is tr~e t~at in Christian DEMONSTRATION so fumly estabhshed m human ex- and Eve belief. a final and complete revelation; hence years others who- craved a human per- provides for necessary and progres- Science the healmg 1s done mentallt. making her discovery of the pe1~ence, le_t us next make a brief sur-! Jesus' three years' ministry began there can be no other, for there is sonality as a leader have also strayed sive local activity. through a form p~ayer, it i~ not nature of God as infinite Mind, ve~ ?r rev1ew of the development of the establishment of his religion. His nothing more to be revealed. There from the pat~ of spiritual, scientifi..:, TEACHINGS OF CHRISTIAN true that the healmg IS. accomphs~ed of the healing effect of this div- reltgwus though~. through the ages I disciples and followers continued his remains only the possibility of in- and safe progress as laid down by SCIENCE through me~tal sugge~twn or will- 4ft Mind upon the human mind and and see the posttwn that the Chris- work so that Christianity grew in creased spiritual understanding of in- Mrs. Eddy for the benefit of her folThe teachings of Christian Science power. ~t _IS also. believed by some she applied this healing Prin- tian Science movement and th~ Dis- spite of the most intense opposition finite Truth. , lowers. And there is still dang~r on which the movement is founded that Chnstlan Sclence heals. only 1 in cases of diRease, deformity, coverer and Fo~nder occupy. m the from both orthodox church and state. We see, then, that the appearing from this temptation. which constitute the basis of its prac- ca.ses o~ ~ervo~~ness, h_yster1a, or even death, and did much marvel- spiritual evolutwn of consciOusness 1Jesus undoubtedly foresaw the an tag- of divine Truth on earth, from the But nothing that malice or ignor- tice and promises, and which, to- shght mdispositiOns which nat~re healing, most of it instantaneomt- which has taken place, as shown in 1on ism with which his teachings would time of Adam to the revelation of 1 ance may attempt to do can touch gether with their application have would take care of, or cases of wh1ch While the cures she wrought the history of salvation. be attacked in an endeavor to destroy Christian Science, came through per- : Mrs. Eddy in the estimation of her , been the cause of its trem~ndous (Continued on page 11) {h: 1 8 8 5 .• I I I I I o! .., |
