Article December 31, 1904 Issue

"There is no Matter."

Alfred Farlow

Nebraska State Journal

If critics would be patient until they understand the exact meaning of the proposition, there is no matter, they would find it more acceptable. The difficulty lies in the fact that they do not understand what Christian Science gives in return for what it repudiates. This Science does not teach that the visible universe is an illusion, but that each created thing, from the least to the greatest, is real, though not what it seems to the concept of those who have not learned to regard it from a spiritual viewpoint.

It is said, "If we know anything at all about anything at all, it is through the aid of these five senses or a part of them, and we have no other means of knowing or assuming to know." This is an admission either that we can never know anything beyond materiality, or that there is nothing to know outside the material, and that "death ends all."

Jesus declared, "God is Spirit." The senses, to which our friend credits so much, declare, "I do not see any spirit, hence I do not believe there is any spirit." One cannot believe in immortality, in Spirit or spiritual creations, without setting aside the testimony of the personal senses; and if one may be permitted to accept testimony contrary to the senses sufficiently to believe in the reality of Spirit, there is no reason why one should not be able to indorse all the teachings of Christian Science.

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