Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord.

  • Lord, Henrietta Frances.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And again we say, God is Spirit Now we have no ' proof of it. Certain savage or back- ward people have said that God is wood and stone. We cannot prove anything about it; to break a wooden idol might seem to one savage a proof that it never could have been God, as he thought, and yet no proof whatever to some other savage. We do not profess to give or expect proof about God or the Source of things ; the inner witness to the savage we are not concerned with; we would not dictate to him or any one. We give no 'proof that God is. God is all. God is good. God is Spirit. We only say: as a matter of experience (i) the Inner Witness says so to each of us; and (2) as the result of believing it, we attain knowledge and power. To the simple, we would also say that the Bible is full of descriptions of the relations of man to God, and you should read them, if you enjoy reading what it says, and have time to read ; but all you need to know is that your Source and you are connected, and at every minute of the day you are being cared for and renewed. To the more learned and complicated mind, we would state Being, perhaps, a little differently : You know the great and bitter cry which is going up from every human heart for a real Satisfaction. You know how ideals of love between man and woman are met with crushing difficulties, either before or after marriage ; you know how bewildering it all is ; and how the same puzzle enters into all friendship, and all love between parent and child. Then you know the question of the Poor; the population question ; heredity, as it works out where drink and vice have their own way, as we used to express it before we knew Christian Science. You know how you ask : Has the world always been just as appalling as it is to a fine modern nature ? If not, what is the good of opening the sensibilities of culture ? Why not remain a little blind to all things ?