Article October 28, 1911 Issue

The writer has no desire to discuss or argue upon questions...

George A. Law

Waterbury (Conn.) Republican

The writer has no desire to discuss or argue upon questions of theology; but since our critic has said that "we are living in perilous times and many professed Christians are being deceived," it becomes eminently consistent to show from his own statements wherein he himself is "deceived" as to much of the teaching of Christian Science.

The belief that the material universe is not of God's creating is not held exclusively by Christian Scientists, but is shared by many eminent philosophers and scientists throughout the world. Christian Science rests absolutely upon the Scripture wherein God is declared to be Spirit and the one creator; thus His creation, including man in His image and likeness, cannot be material but must be spiritual. Christian Science teaches that the material universe and sin and sickness with the accompanying experiences are real to our immature, false sense of things; that as we gain a better understanding of God, and of man's origin and birthright, we are able to discern and realize more and more of the spiritual, in which sin, sickness, and death have no place; thus to the degree that this truth operates and one allows the spiritual law to govern, he manifests or expresses God, and in this proportion he represents God.

Jesus was the highest representative of God because of his recognition of the spiritual, allowing God's will to govern his thought and action. The systems to which our friend has referred are based upon hypnotism, willpower, or the action of the human mind. St. Paul called this will the "carnal mind" or "enmity against God," and Mrs. Eddy has termed it "mortal mind." The reason that Mrs. Eddy's teachings are accepted is that she recognized, as Jesus taught, that healing results from the operation of divine law, in which the material can have no part. Jesus emphasized that healing follows as a natural consequence of right thinking and living. He said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Freedom from sin, sickness, discord, inharmony, etc.; that is, all good, is the reward if righteousness, and it follows as a natural result.

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