Testimony Begotten of Divine Assurance MARY W. MUNROE, CSD          In view of the fact of such increasing interest in the subject of Mind as a healing agency, we are also admonished of the fatal danger of its counterfeit. Since life-issues are at stake in this consideration, the demand is imperative to "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the House of Jacob their sins" (ISAIAH lviii. 1). The world is flooded with teaching, practice, and literature which are fatal adulterations of the Truth, yet purporting to be genuine. Their relative position is like that of the magicians of Egypt, with their enchantments, compared with Moses and Aaron, with the Rod of God in their hand.          It may well and truly be said of some, — perhaps many, — who are dealing out copiously this spurious medication, as Jesus said of one of old: "He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me." (MATTHEW xxvi. 23).          To all, without restriction, who have been taught the power of Mind, and its action from the true basis, yet who have heretofore wilfully turned therefrom, — perverting the same, — or to any still among our ranks who are possibly considering this measure, I would say: "Beware! lest, despising God's appointed leadership to this age, and forsaking the post of duty in the extremity of experience, there should follow the like enactment of Justice as marked a similar period in the early Christian history." The Apostle Paul hath declared that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Today we have the same revealed and more marvellously defined as Spiritual Understanding, denominated Christian Science.          This fulness of Gospel Truth is bringing out the life and teachings of Jesus, our blessed Master, which are again demonstrated on the basis of an understood Principle, which all candid thought must allow far exceeds speculative theories, or "blind trust," misnamed Faith, and is the only safe rule to follow.          With all boldness I do here affirm, in the face of all Christendom, that Science and Health is the only spiritual textbook of the Bible, and is moreover God's gift to man, whereby the Way of Life is reopened, to establish righteousness upon the earth, and bring out the peaceable fruits of health, holiness, and immortality. ...          The conditions are free for all who will come by way of the cross and sacrifice. "He that would come to Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." Again it is written: "Ye shall seek Me and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart."   "Testimony Begotten of Divine Assurance" by Mary W. Munroe, CSD The Christian Science Journal, September, 1887

 

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