Article April 9, 1904 Issue

The study of Christian Science should teach one that the...

Charles K. Skinner

Detroit (Mich.) Chronicle

The study of Christian Science should teach one that the mental and moral attitude of the patient and family is a large factor in bringing out the results desired, and their conscious or unconscious fear of death is the most potent enemy to contend against. It often happens that when this is destroyed in the family alone, the trouble is met.

It is necessary to understand something of the true man and his relation to God before we can realize the meaning of the words that "Life is without beginning and without end." We believe that God is Life, and we believe that God's man, His image and likeness, can never die any more than God could become extinct. Jesus taught that it is Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. At the same time we recognize the mortal claim of death, though perhaps we are careful in speaking of it,—certainly in the presence of the sick.

Jesus did not regard death as did others. He spoke of Lazarus as "sleeping" and of the damsel in the same way, showing that he regarded death as a dormant mental condition, from which the victim could be awakened by the declaration of the Truth of being.

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