Article December 17, 1904 Issue

In the teachings of Christian Science as to the unreality...

C. H. Fahnestock

Philadelphia (Pa.) Press

In the teachings of Christian Science as to the unreality of all material existence and its diseases, it uses the word unreal in the sense of knowing that God is not the author of anything but the good and harmonious, and that His works are as perfect and immortal as Himself. It is through realization of this fact that Christian Scientists are enabled to cure the physical ills that are, and will remain, very real to mortals until the recognition of the true "image and likeness of God" brings health and harmony.

The body is only the reflection of the individual consciousness, and will be sick or well accordingly. Jesus gave abundant authority for doing the works he did, and "greater works," and when through earnest work we attain, as we shall, to the knowledge of God and man that he possessed, then it will be true, as our critic in a spirit of ridicule suggests, that man can dispense with the many articles that are now deemed very necessary for human comfort.

Jesus did not dispense with food and clothing, but he fed the hungry, healed the sick, and raised the dead by spiritual means which were in direct contradiction of all so-called "scientific principles" of his time. He used no drugs, but he did know God and His perfect image,—man. All the sophistry of human reason cannot controvert the fact that Christian Science does heal the sick and regenerate the sinful, as thousands now joyfully bear witness.

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