Article July 30, 1910 Issue

Our critic seeks to establish a variance between Mrs. Eddy's...

Alfred Farlow

Stamford (Conn.) Advocate

Our critic seeks to establish a variance between Mrs. Eddy's statement, "Man is never sick" (Science and Health, p. 393), and the assertions that she has cured carious bones, cancer, etc. Christian Science does not deny that disease and sin exist in erring human experience, and that it is real to that experience, and must be grappled with and overcome; but it destroys these discords by the understanding that the real man was never sick, that sin and sickness are no more a part of the real individual than is the mist a part of the earth which it hides and appears to distort, or the besmirching clay is a part of the diamond which it conceals. Science holds that God is not the author of sin and sickness, and that, therefore, it has nothing more than a seeming existence. The Scriptures declare: "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Sin and sickness are not a part of the "very good" things which God created, and we must be faithful to the proposition that there is but one creator. Moreover, the Scriptures teach that sin, sickness, and death are the works of the devil, and our Lord said of Satan: "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it," meaning that the devil's own, his offspring, is a lie, The Master referred to the woman as having been "bound by Satan, lo, these eighteen years." He did not mention rheumatism. He gave disease no superficial diagnosis or name. If Satan is a liar, his own, as our Lord taught, can be nothing more than a lie. Thus, by axiomatical reasoning, it is shown that Jesus regarded sin and sickness in the same light in which they are held by Mrs. Eddy. It is not claimed that the author of the Christian Science text-book has originated something which our Saviour did not teach, but that she has discovered the Science of Christianity which the Bible contains, and has therefore made it practical.

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