Article November 21, 1914 Issue

In a recent issue I notice the remarks of Mrs. — on...

John W. Doorly

Harrogate (England) Herald

In a recent issue I notice the remarks of Mrs. — on "Occultism," in which he declares that "the occultist differs from the Christian Scientist in that he recognizes the reality and relative permanence of the physical universe." I am glad that the critic has made clear that Christian Science differs entirely from occultism, since anything less like Christian Science than occultism could hardly be imagined.

There is, however, one point I should like to make quite clear, and that is, that Christian Science teaches that "that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit," and that there is absolutely no connection between real or spiritual being and mortality. Christian Science goes a step farther, and proves by the destruction of sin and sickness that, in proportion as we realize true or spiritual being, God's law, in that proportion do we prove mortality, with its sin and suffering, to be unreal; and these small beginnings are our proof that eventually all sense of material existence will give place to the understanding of true being or reality, just as the belief that two plus two equals five yields to the eternal fact that two plus two equals four.

This final overcoming of a material sense of being is what St. John describes when he declares that he "saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." Then will be fulfilled the prayer, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." For then will spiritual being be found ever present and eternal, and the belief in material existence will have disappeared. Christian Science decidedly teaches that in Truth matter has no inherent power, since Spirit is omnipotent, although to mortal sense matter seems to have power. Christian Science is based wholly and solely on the teachings of Jesus Christ, and is in no way occult, but is divinely natural, leading men from matter to Spirit.

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