Article April 25, 1914 Issue

A recent issue contains an article on "The Light of Faith,"...

Paul Stark Seeley

Oregon City (Ore.) Courier

A recent issue contains an article on "The Light of Faith," in which the writer condemns the teaching of Christian Science, that material phenomena are unreal, as wholly fallacious, and upholds the contrary belief, that there is in the universe a "phenomenal as well as a noumenal reality." In other words, the article supports the theory that God, who is Spirit, is expressed through material phenomena, and because Christian Science does not agree, its metaphysics is disapproved.

The critic correctly says, "The man who knows nothing save that which is physical and sensory is out of touch with his times," also, "The man who knows only the physical sees but the world of change and decay and unreality." If he had not quite forgotten these deductions in his later reasoning, and had refused to surrender his logic for the sake of agreeing with commonly entertained belief, the conclusions which this critic condemns Christian Science for adopting would have been his also.

When the master Christian told his followers that they could not serve two masters, he exposed the fallacy of trying to cling to spiritual reality with one hand and of holding to materiality with the other. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing," he said, thus leaving no room for material phenomena in the consciousness which is wholly of God. When physicial science today admits matter to be "immaterial energy" it approaches a step nearer the conclusions reached by Mrs. Eddy more than forty years ago, that "matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind" and that "matter and mortal mind are but different strata of human belief" (Science and Health, pp. 116, 293).

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