Article November 22, 1913 Issue

It is unfortunate that any earnest worker for Christianity...

Charles K. Skinner—Benton Harbor, Mich.

The News-Palladium

It is unfortunate that any earnest worker for Christianity should have the confused sense of the teaching of Christian Science that is indicated by statements in a sermon recently delivered in your city. The clergyman tells us that "Christian Science asks us to give up our faith in personal conscience and immortality for the sake of earthly ease and health." If there is anything on which Christian Science teaching is more specific than another, it is the immortality of man as the individual or spiritual image and likeness of God. Christian Science teaches that the divine idea, or image and likeness, which is the true consciousness of every human being, can never disappear or lose its identity or intelligence unless God could become extinct.

It teaches that all of God's creation are perfect and eternal, and that man is the highest of all. On page 295 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "The universe is filled with spiritual ideas, which He [God] evolves, and they are obedient to the Mind that makes them." It makes all the difference in the world in what light we consider man either here or hereafter. If we look at the mortal concept as the image and likeness, the creation of God, and expect it to be immortal, we shall be disappointed, for the Scriptures state positively that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God."

Christian Science teaches, however, that all that is beautiful, good, and true in the human consciousness lives on forever. It gives the assurance to all that the same spiritual law which enabled Jesus to rise from the tomb and to converse with his friends is as operative for humanity today, if we but had the same understanding of God's law that our Master possessed. Christian Scientists believe that there is no separation in true love, and that the same sweet smile, the same tender glance from loving eyes, will greet each one in the new experience of life where there is no sense of death.

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