Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Opponents benefited
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mands the remedy of Truth more than it is needed in most
mands the remedy of Truth more than it is needed in most
cases; and Science is more than usually effectual in the
treatment of moral ailments.
God invisible to the senses
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That God is a corporeal being, nobody can truly affirm.
That God is a corporeal being, nobody can truly affirm.
The Bible represents Him as saying: "Thou canst not
see My face; for there shall no man see Me
and live." Not materially but spiritually we
know Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love. We
shall obey and adore in proportion as we apprehend the
divine nature and love Him understandingly, warring no
more over the corporeality, but rejoicing in the affluence
of our God. Religion will then be of the heart and not of
the head. Mankind will no longer be tyrannical and pro-
scriptive from lack of love, – straining out gnats and
swallowing camels.
The true worship
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We worship spiritually, only as we cease to worship
We worship spiritually, only as we cease to worship
materially. Spiritual devoutness is the soul of Chris-
tianity. Worshipping through the medium of
matter is paganism. Judaic and other rituals
are but types and shadows of true worship. "The true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth."
Anthropomorphism
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The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God,
The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God,
liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness.
The Christian Science God is universal, eter-
nal, divine love, which changeth not and caus-
eth no evil, disease, nor death. It is indeed mournfully
true that the older Scripture is reversed. In the begin-
ing God created man in His, God's, image; but mor-
tals would procreate man, and make God in their own
human image. What is the god of a mortal, but a mortal
magnified?
More than profession required
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This indicates the distance between the theological and
This indicates the distance between the theological and
ritualistic religion of the ages and the truth preached by
Jesus. More than profession is requisite for
Christian demonstration. Few understand or
adhere to Jesus' divine precepts for living and
healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disci-
ple to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye,
– that is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs
and practices, to leave all for Christ.
No ecclesiastical monopoly
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All revelation (such is the popular thought!) must come
All revelation (such is the popular thought!) must come
from the schools and along the line of scholarly and eccle-
siastical descent, as kings are crowned from a
royal dynasty. In healing the sick and sinning,
Jesus elaborated the fact that the healing effect
followed the understanding of the divine Principle and
of the Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal Jesus.
For this Principle there is no dynasty, no ecclesiastical
monopoly. Its only crowned head is immortal sover-
eignty. Its only priest is the spiritualized man. The
Bible declares that all believers are made "kings and
priests unto God." The outsiders did not then, and
do not now, understand this ruling of the Christ; there-
fore they cannot demonstrate God's healing power.
Neither can this manifestation of Christ be com-
prehended, until its divine Principle is scientifically
understood.
A change demanded
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The adoption of scientific religion and of divine heal-
The adoption of scientific religion and of divine heal-
ing will ameliorate sin, sickness, and death. Let our
pulpits do justice to Christian Science. Let
it have fair representation by the press. Give
to it the place in our institutions of learning now occu-
pied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will