Article March 12, 1904 Issue

Proving our Position

SUSAN B. FRITZ.

A GENTLEMAN once came to me with a question which is often asked by people who know but little of Christian Science,—"Do Christian Scientists claim there is no evil or sin?" After carefully explaining to him, that we recognize any condition of error, only to destroy it, his response proved how clearly he understood the explanation, which, when repeated, has thrown much light upon the subject for others. After listening attentively, he said, "Yes, now I see very plainly. The conditions would be similar to one in which I found myself a short time ago. I was teaching school in the mountains. While there I received a letter from a lawyer who was located in a large city a few miles away, and who wrote to the interest was due on a loan which had been given on some property several months before.

He said, "I wrote to the lawyer that I owned no such property, consequently did not owe him any interest." The lawyer wrote a second time; to which the man paid no attention. Then a third letter came threatening that if he did not pay the interest within a few days, legal proceedings would be taken. He said, "I never owned the property, therefore never secured a loan on it, hence could owe him no interest. But he claimed I did, and I would have to trouble at least, even if it were not serious."

Error is sometimes just as persistent. It makes all sorts claims upon us: That we are in bondage to laws of health, to laws of climate, to sin, sickness, and suffering of every sort, and it is our work to prove our identity as children of God. Now according to Christian Science "Man is not matter,—made up of brains, blood, bones, and other material elements. The Scriptures inform, us that man was made in the image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The reflection of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit" (Science and Health, p. 475).

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