Article February 7, 1901 Issue

Christian Science states that there is no sin in reality—...

Christian Science states that there is no sin in reality—not that it does not exist to our human sense. Anything to be real, must be permanent, enduring, and substantive in its existence. Christian Science teaches that all sin will be overcome at last. Therefore, it is not real; God never created it; it has not a permanent, enduring, and substantive existence. Christian Science belittles sin by overcoming it. Our friends, the clergy, are trying to-day to overcome sin. If they believe it to be real, and that God created it, are they not following a forlorn hope?

To the morphine eater, his desire is real. The attraction of the drug overpowers all else, but through the power of God, as manifested in Christian Science, the desire leaves him. Then it is no longer real, but unreal. So it will be with all sin, when the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.

Many books have been written and long sermons preached, explaining the meaning of the Lord's Prayer The writers and clergy have never been classed as "presumptuous" for giving to the world their best thought on this subject. Science and Health gives the spiritual interpretation of this prayer, but does not change it. The Lord's Prayer, as used to-day in other churches, is a part of our service.

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