Article August 21, 1902 Issue

Who is Deluded?

Alfred Farlow with contributions from Newman

Springfield (Mass.) Republican

To the Editor:—

Your good paper reported that Rev. Mr. Collier denounced Christian Science as a "harmful delusion," that his knowledge of the subject was based upon his study of criticisms of The Christian Science Journal and Science and Health. So far as I am able to judge, the principle objection to this Science on the part of critics is regarding its teachings concerning matter. Why one should fight so assiduously for that of which the great Master of Christianity never had a favorable thing to say, and of which he always spoke disparingly, seems strange. But we think this is mainly due to the fact that the critics of this faith do not note what this Science gives in the place of that which it repudiates.

The abstract statement, "There is no matter," needs the fuller explanations given in the Christian Science text-book, in order to be understood. Christian Science does not teach that all visible phenomena are unreal, but that they are not what they seem to the uneducated human mind. It is not the creation itself which is denied by this science, but the false human concept thereof. We believe that in our present unspiritual condition we are more or less erroneous in our perception of all these, that as we advance spiritually we gain clearer and more correct views, that this progress will continue until we finally awake in the likeness of God, when we shall see all things as He sees them, heaven and earth in all their beauty, perfection, and spirituality.

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