Article July 28, 1906 Issue

When Locke wrote that secondary qualities were dependent...

Frederick Dixon

The World

When Locke wrote that secondary qualities were dependent on mind, he did not in the least mean that they had no subjective reality. When Professor Oswald said that "matter was only a thing imagined," he did not mean that nothing was imagined. And when Mrs. Eddy says that disease is unreal, she does not mean that it does not seem real to the human mind, but that it is not of God. Consequently, she does not have to "bribe the thoughtless and the foolish to profess a form of religion by promising them freedom from bodily sickness," she has only to explain to them what Matthew Arnold once called the moral therapeutics of Jesus, and why he said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

Why should it be considered quaint to dub Christianity Science? If Christianity is exact truth it is scientific, and its truth can be demonstrated in healing sickness as well as sin. Jesus said, "Preach the gospel" and "heal the sick." It is the effort of Christian Science to obey this divine command by making absolutely practical to-day the truth so perfectly expressed by Whittier:—

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