Article November 29, 1913 Issue

In a recent issue appear Mr. Ted Smith's remarks about...

John W. Doorly

The Leeds (England) Mercury

In a recent issue appear Mr. Ted Smith's remarks about death from the Christian Science view-point. Now, as a matter of fact, Christian Scientists are much more interested in life than in death, for they know that only through the understanding of infinite Life can death be explained, and that explanation, like the explanation of every mistake, would be its cessation. Jesus described death as an enemy, and yet mankind have for centuries been fooling themselves into the belief that it was a friend, and the way to what they considered to be heaven. Yet, in spite of this, every one has done all he could to prevent himself from going this way to heaven. Christian Scientists recognize that death is the consequence of ignorance of God, who is infinite Life. Christian Science in no way teaches that death is not a part of mortal sense, but it does teach that this sense of things is a mistaken sense, and that it can be corrected through an understanding of Truth.

If the critic hopes to attain infinite Life through his material senses, he will be disappointed, for it is those very senses which tell him of death, and only through understanding, or spiritual sense, can infinite Life, perfect and indestructible, be known. "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die," is as true today as it was nineteen hundred years ago, but it is problematical if any one understands enough of infinite Life to demonstrate it.

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