Article November 8, 1913 Issue

In a recent issue I notice an excerpt from a criticism...

John W. Doorly—Manchester, England

The Middleton Guardian

In a recent issue I notice an excerpt from a criticism stating that "we make our own worries, and then repeat the error by resorting to Christian Science for relief." This doctrine of "don't worry" is all very well as far as it goes, but unfortunately these negative remedies accomplish very little for the ills of humanity. Christian Science teaches the positive practical gospel of Christ Jesus, which enables mankind to meet and destroy every discord of mortal sense with the "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" which makes "free from the law of sin and death." The Christian Scientist, through the understanding of the ever-present law of good, is enabled to utilize this law just as he would utilize the multiplication-table, and to banish sin, disease, and worry just as he would banish a mistake in mathematics, because he understands that every evil is, in its final analysis, not a material effect but a mental delusion born of the ignorance of God's law, and must give place to a right mental condition, that is, to the understanding of that law. In fact, he knows that truth, or the will of God, must destroy error, or the delusions of mortal sense, just as light destroys darkness, because one is real and the other is unreal.

Christian Science is in no way allied to mental science, for Christian Science teaches the actuality of one infinite Mind, in whom we all "live, and move, and have our being," while mental science believes in minds many; they are therefore direct opposites.

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