Article September 15, 1934 Issue

I feel sure that the statement made by a clergyman...

Miss Alice E. Rose, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,—Bexhill-on-Sea

Observer

I feel sure that the statement made by a clergyman that "Christian Scientists do not believe in the reality of pain and of the existence of evil in the world" is due solely to a misunderstanding of the teachings of Christian Science on these points. Christian Science most certainly does not deny the seeming existence of both pain and evil in the world today, but its teachings show logically and demonstratively that there is no God-given authority for their existence. On page 472 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made." A sick and sinful mortal is not the reality of man. In speaking of sickness Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

Christian Science does not seek to minimize the sinful effects of error, but urges the uncovering of evil in human thought in order to destroy it with "the truth of being," that is, through the understanding of the nothingness of evil and the allness of God, omnipotent, omnipresent good.

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