Article September 18, 1902 Issue

The Right Thought of God

John E. Playter

Medical Dial

God made everything that was made, as St. John says, "and without him was not anything made that was made." Who made sin and sickness? Did God? Are they a part of God's creation? God is Good and has created everything, did He create a capacity in His creation so that sin, sickness, and death could be evolved?

On the basis that God is infinite Good and all powerful, Christian Scientists are gradually gaining a supremacy over sin, sickness, and Satan. This dominion is rightfully man's, since it was originally given him as recorded in Genesis. Instead of these errors controlling man, and taking possession of him, and destroying him, man should control them. This control is not by enduring but by overcoming all powers that are opposed to God, and the most natural way of accomplishing this end is taught by Christian Science. Christian Scientists agree most emphatically with our critics that the healing is a compassionate act of an all-powerful God, they differ from him as to the method in which an all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing, heavenly Father accomplishes this compassionate act of healing the sick and reforming the sinner.

As there is nothing divine except what relates to God, therefore Christian Science in honoring divine healing has honored God. No church has honored God more than Christian Science has, for it teaches man to pray to God without ceasing, and to depend on no other help.

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