Article July 12, 1913 Issue

I have just read with interest your friendly comment on...

Willis D. McKinstry—Coffeyville, Kan.

The Sun

I have just read with interest your friendly comment on Christian Science and The Christian Science Monitor in a recent issue of The Sun, in which you say, "We believe there are such things as poverty, misfortune, crime, disease, and death." This statement would convey the impression to the uninformed that the teachings of Christian Science ignore or overlook these evil conditions. This is not the case; Christian Science does not teach that these conditions do not exist in appearance, or as human phenomena as opposed to the real or spiritual creation. It reiterates the words of St. Paul "We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Christian Science acquaints mankind with the spiritual facts of existence, and through Principle and rule, if faithfully applied, it replaces poverty with affluence, misfortune with protection and success, crime with virtue, disease with health, and death with immortality, all of which is in accord with the words of Christ Jesus: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." It teaches that being is, that existence is a fact, that the universe is a spiritual reality, therefore it is not what the human or mortal mind would have us believe it to be. The way of salvation from all human discord is transformation, not annihilation; it is to possess that Mind which was in Christ Jesus. One may experience the belief that two times two is five, but he can never know it. The human belief of existence maintains that mankind and the universe are subject to all kinds of calamities. It was to save mortals from these false beliefs that Christ Jesus came into the world.

Now a word as to The Christian Science Monitor. You say, "It hides a certain kind of news from its readers and presents just what it thinks they ought to have." Cannot this be said of all newspapers, as their editors and staff of reporters have the selecting of all matter that goes into the columns of their papers? The newspaper has a much broader and higher field of activity than the mere publishing of events or the happenings of the times. The newspaper is a powerful educator; its influence molds the thought in the community in which it is published to a greater degree than the public school or even the pulpit; hence care should be exercised in the selection of news matter, whether it be for gool or for evil.

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