Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1898).djvu/315

Rh and teaching, “Through breaking the law, dishonorest thou God?” We have the Gospel, however, and our

Master annulled material law, by healing contrary thereto. We propose to follow the Master's example. As far as in us lies, we should subordinate material law to spiritual law. Two essential points of Christian Science are that Life never dies, and that God is not the author of sickness.

The chief difficulty, in conveying the teachings of Divine Science accurately to human thought, lies in this,

that, like all other language, English is inadequate to the expression of spiritual conceptions and propositions, through the use of material terms. The elucidation of Christian Science lies in its spiritual sense, and this sense must be gained by its disciples, in order to grasp the meaning of this Science. Out of this condition grew the prophecy concerning the Christian apostles, “They shall speak with new tongues.”

Speaking of the things of Spirit, yet dwelling on a material plane, material terms must be generally employed. Mortal mind does not at once catch the higher meaning; and can only do so as thought is educated up to spiritual apprehension. To a certain extent this is equally true of all learning, even that which is wholly material.

In Christian Science, Substance is understood to be Spirit, while its opponents believe substance to be

matter. They think of matter as something, and almost the only thing, and of the things which pertain to Spirit as next to nothing, or as very far removed from daily experience; while Christian Science takes exactly the contrary view.