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employed, to be the most effective curative agent
in medical practice.
(One school of Truth)
Is there more than one school of Christian Science?
Christian Science is demonstrable. There can, therefore,
be but one method in its teaching. Those who depart
from this method forfeit their claims to
belong to its school, and they become adherents
of the Socratic, the Platonic, the Spencerian, or some
other school. By this is meant that they adopt and adhere
to some particular system of human opinions. Although
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)
From the infinite One in Christian Science comes one
Principle and its infinite idea, and with this infinitude
come spiritual rules, laws, and their demonstration,
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 characterized
in the epistle to the Hebrews.
(On sandy foundations)
Any theory of Christian Science, which departs from
what has already been stated and proved to be true, affords
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)
God is the Principle of divine metaphysics. As there
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