Article May 10, 1913 Issue

In a recent issue appeared an address given by Evangelist...

J. M. Welch

Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union

In a recent issue appeared an address given by Evangelist Reese, who made reference to Christian Science as follows: "Mrs. Eddy says, the way to get rid of sin is to believe there is no sin." To leave this statement as it stands would be to give a wrong impression of the teachings of Christian Science on this subject. Mrs. Eddy teaches that Christian Science awakens the sinner to the realization of the truth, and with this awakening comes the knowledge that sin is forgiven only as it is forsaken and destroyed. In Science and Health we read: "To get rid of sin through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, and never to admit that sin can have intelligence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by denying its verity" (p. 339).

St. Paul declared that the carnal mind was "enmity against God," was no part of the spiritual man in God's image and likeness, and was not "subject to the law of God;" and furthermore, that flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom. Jesus taught that sin or the devil abode not in truth, because there was no truth in him; that he was a liar and the father of lies. Christ's mission on earth was to show the unreality of sin, disease, and death by destroying them, knowing that they were no part of the kingdom of God. Now, if God made all these evils, we could agree with the evangelist that they were an "awful reality" and eternal, hence indestructible, and that Christ would not or could not have destroyed them, for he knew that he could destroy none of God's works. On the contrary, he healed all manner of sin and sickness, knowing that evil is the absence of God, just as darkness is the absence of light. In fact, when light is brought into a dark room, darkness disappears into nothingness. When the truth is brought into our consciousness, sin disappears in like manner, for it was only a false mental state which the truth destroyed.

When we begin to understand that God is ever present, never absent, and that where God is there is the kingdom, it becomes an easy matter to know that sin has no part in this kingdom. The Scriptures declare that the kingdom of God is within us (in our consciousness). When this great truth begins to fill our minds, sin ceases to have an abiding-place there and is destroyed. If every individual in the world would work and pray for that Mind to be in him which was in Christ Jesus, then heaven would be realized today, and there would be no more sorrow or suffering of any kind, for all tears would be wiped away.

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