0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents

This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    Have you changed your instructions as to the right way
18	of treating disease? 

  	    I have not; and this important fact must be, and al-
  	ready is, apprehended by those who understand my in-
21	structions on this question. Christian Science demands
  	both law and gospel, in order to demonstrate healing,
  	and I have taught them both in its demonstration, and
24	with signs following. They are a unit in restoring the
  	equipoise of mind and body, and balancing man's ac-
  	count with his Maker. The sequence proves that strict
27	adherence to one is inadequate to compensate for the
  	absence of the other, since both constitute the divine law
  	of healing. 
30	    The Jewish religion demands that "whoso sheddeth
  	man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." But this  

  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                      
  page 66

1	law is not infallible in wisdom; and obedience thereto
  	may be found faulty, since false testimony or mistaken
 3	evidence may cause the innocent to suffer for the guilty. 
  	Hence the gospel that fulfils the law in righteousness,
  	the genius whereof is displayed in the surprising wisdom
 6	of these words of the New Testament: "Whatsoever
  	a man soweth, that shall he also reap." No possible
  	injustice lurks in this mandate, and no human mis-
 9	judgment can pervert it; for the offender alone suffers,
  	and always according to divine decree. This sacred,
  	solid precept is verified in all dire...ctions in Mind-
12	healing, and is supported in the Scripture by parallel
  	proof. 
  	    The law and gospel of Truth and Love teach, through
15	divine Science, that sin is identical with suffering, and
  	that suffering is the lighter affliction. To reach the sum-
  	mit of Science, whence to discern God's perfect ways
18	and means, the material sense must be controlled by
  	the higher spiritual sense, and Truth be enthroned,
  	while "we look not at the things which are seen, but at
21	the things which are not seen." 
  	    Cynical critics misjudge my meaning as to the sci-
  	entific treatment of the sick. Disease that is superin-
24	duced by sin is not healed like the more physical
  	ailment. The beginner in sin-healing must know this, or
  	he never can reach the Science of Mind-healing, and
27	so "overcome evil with good." Error in premise is met
  	with error in practice; yea, it is "the blind leading the
  	blind." Ignorance of the cause of disease can neither
30	remove that cause nor its effect. 
  	    I endeavor to accommodate my instructions to the
  	present capability of the learner, and to support the
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                      
  page 67

 1	liberated thought until its altitude reaches beyond the
  	mere alphabet of Mind-healing. Above physical wants,
 3	lie the higher claims of the law and gospel of healing. 
  	First is the law, which saith: —  
  	    "Thou shalt not commit adultery;" in other words,
 6	thou shalt not adulterate Life, Truth, or Love, — men-
  	tally, morally, or physically. "Thou shalt not steal;"
  	that is, thou shalt not rob man of money, which is but
 9	trash, compared with his rights of mind and character. 
  	"Thou shalt not kill;" that is, thou shalt not strike at the
  	eternal sense of Life with a malicious aim, but shalt
12	know that by doing thus thine own sense of Life shall be
  	forfeited. "Thou shalt not bear false witness;" that is,
  	thou shalt not utter a lie, either mentally or audibly, nor
15	cause it to be thought. Obedience to these command-
  	ments is indispensable to health, happiness, and length
  	of days. 
18	    The gospel of healing demonstrates the law of Love. 
  	Justice uncovers sin of every sort; and mercy demands
  	that if you see the danger menacing others, you shall,
21	Deo volente, inform them thereof. Only thus is the right
  	practice of Mind-healing achieved, and the wrong prac-
  	tice discerned, disarmed, and destroyed. 
Read more