Article January 29, 1903 Issue

In Reply to a Churchman's Criticism

W. D. McCrackan

The New York Sun

Mr. Editor:—Dean Hart's letter in your issue of December 21 carries upon its face certain conclusions which appear to me evidently mistaken, and I will ask you for a little space to answer him according to my understanding of the subject.

The dean's quotations from Mrs. Eddy's writings show with considerable accuracy the difference which she reveals between the ideal or perfect man and the mortal or material man. But he fails to appreciate the fact that this mortal or material man is described in Christian Science as a false concept of man, and therefore as unreal.

Christian Science defines the term "real" as applicable only to that which is eternal and indestructible. But mortal man is by the very adjective "mortal," branded as vanishing and destructible.

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