Article May 29, 1902 Issue

Sin's Destruction

By HERBERT W. BECK.

The healing garment of Christian Science is complete. It covers every human need with its warmth of Love. It is that which the nations weep for, and, thanks to the presentation, they are finding it. Christian Science warms and brings into new life the chilled heart of humanity.

So many think that this spiritual Science is some new quack system, appealing only to the outward expression of the physical senses. This healing of the body becomes such a seeming paramount work in Christian Science only for the reason that the world itself places such a premium upon the health of that body. Upon the opening of the flower of understanding, we find, however, that the true health is the health of spirituality. This is found by the destruction of sin, of which disease is only a part.

According to common teaching the diseased one is to be pitied and sympathized with in his unnatural condition, the attempt being to make him comfortable therein, while the sinner is condemned and perhaps down-trodden. Through Christian Science practice both of these extremes are brought together upon a common ground for destruction. The time is fast approaching when the sick shall see that they are not following the Master's example of being what the name implies—master "of beast, fowl, reptile, and fish,—himself subordinate alone to his Maker" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 518, Rev. Ed.). Upon the other hand, the sinner will see that sin is the unreality of being. This lifts him out of the Slough of Despond to walk in the way of uprightness.

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