Article August 5, 1911 Issue

In reply to the statement as to the teaching of Christian Science...

George A. Law

Stamford (Conn.) Advocate

In reply to the statement as to the teaching of Christian Science regarding the "world," kindly allow me to state that Christian Scientists accept the Scriptural account of the creation as found in the first chapter of Genesis, where it is stated that God created the spiritual universe, and man in His image and likeness, spiritual. It is also stated that God saw that His creation was good. This spiritual universe, where all is good, where peace, harmony, and happiness reign supreme, is not apprehended in its entirety by mankind, with his immature sense of things; however, to the extent that he gains a knowledge of God, the universe, the true man, and the laws governing, to that extent is man able to discern the truth and exclude from his experience that which has no rightful claim to a place in the life of man as the image and likeness of God. This is in strict accord with the teachings of our Master.

If what God created was good, His creation certainly could not contain an element of evil, or anything having an evil or harmful effect; hence any such results could not possibly originate in God or emanate from anything which He created; therefore harmful effects must necessarily be accounted for in some other way. It is easy then to conclude that all such destroyers of the peace, happiness, and harmony of man, including sin, sickness, and death, are not the legitimate experiences of man; if they are, then certainly Jesus, whose mission was to show man how to live aright, would not have taught how to get rid of these disorders. By example and precept Jesus showed that, by allowing God's spiritual law to operate and govern the thoughts and actions of man, man's freedom from all ill, together with his right of "dominion over all," is established.

We feel that a careful study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," will reveal to any one the answer to the question "What is wrong with the world?"

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