Article June 24, 1911 Issue

In a recent issue of the Scotsman, the statement that...

E. M. Ramsay—Edinburgh, Scot.

Scotsman,

In a recent issue of the Scotsman, the statement that "pain and death are only things of the unemancipated will" is given as the teaching of Christian Science. As a fact, this is the exact opposite of its teaching. Christian Science maintains that since sin, disease, pain, death form no part of the infinite, ever-present, indestructible "I am that I am," whom we call God, the creator of all things, they can form no integral or essential part of His creation, of His effect, of the man made in His image and likeness, and are thus not real in the absolute sense of that word.

In order to get rid of these evils, much more is required than a mere theoretical assertion of their unreality. "The old man with his deeds" must be put off; we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Science and Health shows us the scientific process by which thought may be corrected, but the letter without the spirit is of no avail; the ramparts of heaven cannot be stormed; men can now as of old enter it only by that path "which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen;" by the strait gate of purity, humility, peace, and joy.

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