Article April 25, 1903 Issue

An Important Point

W. D. McCrackan

Brooklyn (N.Y.) Citizen

There is no statement in any of Mrs. Eddy's works, which I can recall, that the mere terms, "existence" or "body" represent dreams or unrealities. Her teaching is that the concept of existence as being "mortal;" i.e., temporal and ending in extinction, is a false concept, hence the belief in a "mortal existence" is aptly comparable to a dream; while the belief that the real man, made in the image and likeness of God, can be material, is likewise a false concept or an unreality. Neither "existence" nor "body" are denied, but it is not the least of Mrs. Eddy's services as a religious teacher that she points out the immutable fact that existence is eternal, without beginning or ending, and that the real man, made by God (Spirit), must also be spiritual.

In other words, Christian Science does not teach the destruction or annihilation of anything, but the wiping away of a false sense of life and of man, which would make us believe that the former is measurable by time, and the latter can be expressed in terms of matter.

In metaphysical questions of this sort there is room for much quiet thought. I do not ask Mul to accept the views taught by Mrs. Eddy, but I can assure him that they have opened for me a wider prospect of health, happiness, and a measure of holiness than I had imagined possible. This is the verdict of many good people who wish well to their fellow-men. W. D. McCrackan.
In Brooklyn (N.Y.) Citizen.

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