Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1919 — THE TEXTBOOK [ARTICLE]

THE TEXTBOOK

It is fitting at this time to say something about the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mrs. Eddy. The dominant thought of the textbook ,is spiritual. If anything else is sought in its pages it will be unresponsive. To those who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness an dto the sick and sinful who are seeking peace, it is as deep responding unto deep. Simply the reading of it has lifted thousands of sufferers out of despair. Friends: the man who is really homesick to know his heavenly Father, God, from whom he seems to be separated, is ready to study this textbook, and to gain through its teaching, healing and purity and peace. The Christian Science textbook, through informing and guiding the truth seeker, disposes thoroughly of a cold storage Bible, by throwing the doors wide open and exposing its treasures to all who desire them. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING What is Christian Science healing? It is the overcoming of disease by the same method which Jesus employed, that is, by understanding and utilizing the infinite power of. God who, according to the psalmist, health all our infirmities. The results in Christian Science healing differ from those brought about by other methods in that they are moral as well as physical, and are far more complete, satisfactory, and enduring. Jesus never employed nor recommended the use of matter in any form to cure disease. It is not easy to see how a physician can be a follower of Jesus and yet in his profession adopt a remedy exactly the opposite of that which Jesus, by his acts, authorized: This is no insidious I arraignment of the medftal prosesI sion. This is not an assertion that l medical doctors cannot be Christians. It does not impugn their sincerity and noble purpose. It simply asserts what they themselves sometimes vehemently declare, that they do not follow Jesus’ method of healing. Christian Seieiitists abide by Jthe fact written in the Bibl ethat “the effectual fervent prayer of 'a righteous man availeth much.” In one of her

books (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 96) Mrs. Eddy* says of Christian Science healing: “It is not one mind acting upon another mind; it is not the transference of human images of thought to other minds;..., it is not of the flesh,.. .It is not one mortal thought "transmitted to another s thought from the human mind that hold within itself all evil.” It is Christ come to destroy the power of the flesh; it is Truth over error. This definition of Christian Science healing is a partial exposition of Jesus’ words: ‘’Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” If one desires a fuller explanation he must study Christian Science, and learn how evil is explained and overcome metaphysically. '*■4w * ’ ' •