Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

Confirmatory tests

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tifically employed, to be the most effective curative agent

in medical practice.

One school of Truth

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Is there more than one school of Christian Science?

Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, there-

fore, be but one method in its teaching. Those who de-

part from this method forfeit their claims to

belong to its school, and they become adher-

ents of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some

other school. By this is meant that they adopt and ad-

here to some particular system of human opinions. Al-

though these opinions may have occasional gleams of

divinity, borrowed from that truly divine Science which

eschews man-made systems, they nevertheless remain

wholly human in their origin and tendency and are not

scientifically Christian.

Unchanging Principle

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From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one

Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude

come spiritual rules, laws, and their demon-

stration, which, like the great Giver, are "the

same yesterday, and to-day, and forever;" for thus are

the divine Principle of healing and the Christ-idea charac-

terized in the epistle to the Hebrews.

On sandy foundations

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Any theory of Christian Science, which departs from

what has already been stated and proved to be true, af-

fords no foundation upon which to establish

a genuine school of this Science. Also, if any

so-called new school claims to be Christian Science, and

yet uses another author's discoveries without giving that

author proper credit, such a school is erroneous, for it

inculcates a breach of that divine commandment in the

Hebrew Decalogue, "Thou shalt not steal."

Principle and practice

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God is the Principle of divine metaphysics. As there