SCIENTIFIC TRANSLATION - The Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute

school in the physical sciences. A conflict was set up in his mindbecause it seemed to him that science was the antithesis of Science,and this collision produced the fits. When it was explained to him thatthe two disciplines were but two languages for studying the samething, the conflict was resolved and he was healed. The young man isnow a professional scientist and at the same time an earnest studentof Christian Science.Language 3In her little book Christian Healing (p 7) Mrs. Eddy writes, “ 'The newtongue' is the spiritual meaning as opposed to the material. It is thelanguage of Soul instead of the senses; it translates matter into itsoriginal language, which is Mind, and gives the spiritual instead of thematerial signification.” “Man and the universe is always the originalspiritual idea of Mind; the truth about matter is always Spirit.” “Matteris substance in error, Spirit is substance in Truth” (Ret 57:17). “Matteris a misstatement of Mind” (Mis 174:2). By employing this “newtongue” thought is freed to retranslate the mistaken, material, senseof things back into the divine reality. Our work is therefore the retranslationof the mistranslation. So we move into the third categoryof language as used in the two textbooks, the language ofredemption.Surging through the Bible like an irresistible tide is the conviction ofthe supremacy of Truth over error, of right over wrong, of Life overdeath. The idiom of liberation, of healing, of restoration, ofresurrection, of salvation, is found in every book. It is the majesticstory of the Christ-power to take away “the sin of the world” (John1:29), - that is, the error that man and his world originate in mortality.The last twenty-five glorious chapters of the prophet Isaiah resoundwith the triumphant tone of God restoring to humanity its almostforgottendivinity. Be comforted, for the conflict is no more. “And I willbring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in pathsthat they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, andcrooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and notforsake them,” (42:16). “But now thus saith the Lord that createdthee, 0 Jacob, and he that formed thee, 0 Israel, Fear not: for I haveredeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine” (43:1).28