Article October 28, 1911 Issue

In a recent article entitled "Material Things: Are they...

Charles D. Reynolds

Granite State News

In a recent article entitled "Material Things: Are they Real or a Delusion?" the writer refers to Mrs. Eddy and her followers as harboring a delusion and as failing to establish the proof of the correctness of her interpretation of the Scriptural teaching concerning the unreality of matter, disease, and death. Careful thought ought to correct such a hasty conclusion.

To the personal senses Jesus passed through the experience called death. Did it prove that his teachings were untrue, and that all his disciples who have tried to follow him, including Mrs. Eddy, are mistakenly harboring a delusion and should renounce the doctrine? Mrs. Eddy never taught that mortals would not pass through the belief of death. Neither did the Founder of Christianity. He taught that materiality, sickness, and death will cease only as they are overcome. Mortality must be "swallowed up," or destroyed, according to the language of Paul. It is true, as the writer says, that popular theology does teach that God united the material and the spiritual in a mysterious inexplicable way, and that this cooperation is therefore divinely necessary and right.

In opposition to this theory, however, stands the inspired teaching of the Bible, as well as the teaching and example of Christ Jesus. This materialistic worldly theory, held by mortals, is everywhere denounced in Scripture as something which is contrary to Truth, and responsible for sin and suffering. To point out the evil of this human theory or belief, and lead men away from materiality to spirituality, is the great theme which underlies the Ten Commandments, the sermon on the mount, the eighth chapter of Romans, and Revelation. The Scriptures everywhere represent that matter and Spirit are a divided kingdom. Materiality is not partly right and partly wrong. All materiality must be finally rooted out. In this way we shall serve but one master; the eye will not be double but single; and our treasures will be found to be in heaven and not on earth.

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