Chapter 10: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter X - Science Of Being

Modern evangel

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sent?" If sent, how shall they preach, convert, and heal

multitudes, except the people hear?

Spirituality of Scripture

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The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before

Truth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only

as we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek.

In the soil of an "honest and good heart" the

seed must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the

swinish element in human nature uproots it. Jesus said:

"Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." The spiritual

sense of the Scriptures brings out the scientific sense, and

is the new tongue referred to in the last chapter of Mark's

Gospel.

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Jesus' parable of "the sower" shows the care our

Master took not to impart to dull ears and gross hearts

the spiritual teachings which dulness and grossness could

not accept. Reading the thoughts of the people, he said:

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast

ye your pearls before swine."

Unspiritual contrasts

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It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization

of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce

of material existence; it is chastity and purity,

in contrast with the downward tendencies

and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity,

which really attest the divine origin and operation of Chris-

tian Science. The triumphs of Christian Science are re-

corded in the destruction of error and evil, from which are

propagated the dismal beliefs of sin, sickness, and death.

God the Principle of all

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The divine Principle of the universe must interpret the

universe. God is the divine Principle of all that repre-

sents Him and of all that really exists. Chris-

tian Science, as demonstrated by Jesus, alone

reveals the natural, divine Principle of Science.