Article August 10, 1907 Issue

To rightly understand Christian Science one must take...

Lloyd B. Coate

The Urbana (Ill.) Tribune

To rightly understand Christian Science one must take all of its teachings and not detached sentences here and there. When Mrs. Eddy uses the phrase "divine Mind" she means the same as Jesus did when he spoke of God as Spirit, or as St. John did when he wrote, "God is love." When she speaks of matter as unreal and sin as unreal, she speaks from the spiritual and not the human sense of things. To the human sense of things sin, sickness, and death are real. When a man indulges in sin he makes sin a reality in his own belief, but when he accepts Christ and lives a Christian life he no longer sees pleasure in sin; then it becomes unreal to him; he beholds its powerlessness. The horrible things beheld by a man with delirium tremens are very real to him; but when he reforms from drinking, no longer indulging or seeing pleasure in a sinful life, he can see the awful unreality of that phase of sin. Darkness seems very real, but when light is admitted darkness disappears. The Scriptures speak of a time when a new earth and a new heaven shall appear; when all tears shall be wiped away, when there shall be no more pain and no more death. As this spiritual state of consciousness dawns upon mankind we shall see the unreality of sin, sickness, and death. The beloved disciple John saw this while on the island of Patmos. Christian Science teaches that in proportion as we come into possession of the same Mind manifest in Christ Jesus, we are able to help the sick, the suffering, and the sinful.

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