We do not conceive rightly of God, if we think of Him 12
as less than infinite. The human person is finite; and
therefore I prefer to retain the proper sense of Diety by
using the phrase _an individual_ God rather than _a per- 15
sonal_ God; for there is and can be but on infinite indi-
vidual spirit, who mortals have named God.
Science defines the individuality of God as supreme 18
good, Life, Truth, Love. This term enlarges our sense
of Diety, takes away the trammels assigned to God by
finite though, and introduces us to higher definitions. 21
_Is healing the sick the whole of Science?_
Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Chris-
tian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and 24
action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The
emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of
sin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the 27
cure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they 1
do not love to be sick. Hence their comparative acqui-
escence in your endeavors to heal them of bodily ills, and 3
their obstinate resistance to all efforts to save them from
sin through Christ, spiritual Truth and Love, which
redeem them, and become their Saviour, through the 6
flesh, from the flesh, -- the material world and evil.
This Life, Truth, and Love -- this trinity of good -- was
individualized, to the perception of mortal sense, in the 9
man Jesus. His history is emphatic in our hearts, and it
lives more because of his spiritual than his physical healing.
His example is, to Christian Scientists, what the models 12
of the masters in music and painting are to artists.
Genuine Christian Scientists will no more deviate mor-
ally from that divine digest of Science called the Sermon 15
on the Mount, than they will manipulate invalids, prescribe
drugs, or deny God. Jesus' healing was spiritual in its
nature, method, and design. He wrought the cure of 18
disease through the divine Mind, which gives all true
volition, impulse, and action; and destroys the mental
error made manifest physically, and establishes the oppo- 21
site manifestation of Truth upon the body in harmony
and health.
_By the individuality of God, do you mean that God has_ 24
_a finite form?_
No. I mean the infinite and divine Principle of all
being, the ever-present I AM, filling all space, including 27
in itself all Mind, the one Father-Mother God. Life, 1
Truth, and Love are this trinity in unity, and their uni-
verse is spiritual, peopled with perfect beings, harmonious 3
and eternal, of which our material universe and men are
the counterfeits.
_Is God the Principle of all science, or only of Divine or_ 6
_Christian Science?_
Science is Mind manifested. It is not material; neither
is it of human origin. 9
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