Article October 24, 1903 Issue

Extracts from a Christian Scientist's Letter to a Friend

J. A. PLUMMER

Through the kindly ministrations of Christian Science, my wife has been brought back to health and strength and a peace of thought that "surpasseth understanding," thanks not to the suggestion of any personality, but to the fact that all other means had been tried in vain and found wanting.

You say, "I think it entirely wrong." Now, my friend, has it ever occurred to you that we all think that many things are wrong which are in fact right, and that our thinking does not change the truth in the least? For many centuries people thought the earth flat. Such mistaken thinking, however, did not change the spherical form of the earth in the least.

Again, you say, "Science claims there is no sin in the world, and that we are good and pure." If you had read Science and Health instead of merely scanning it, you would have discovered that it taught, not that there is no sin in the world, but that sin is wholly and entirely of the world and does not partake of any spirituality whatever, but that the true man, as distinguished from the human sense man, is pure.

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