Article July 4, 1914 Issue

As reported in the Sun, a critic of Christian Science recently...

George Shaw Cook

Waukegan (Ill.) Sun

As reported in the Sun, a critic of Christian Science recently resorted to the method of quoting disjointed extracts from the Christian Science text-book for the purpose of ridiculing its teaching. This method of quoting sentences and phrases from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" without any regard to their context is, I regret to say, not unusual; but the present critic, in commenting on the quotations he has made, certainly displays an unusual degree of ingnorance of this teaching.

The simple facts concerning the healing of sickness and sin by Christian Science are sufficiently convincing to have attracted the serious consideration of thinking people in every part of the world. Among those who have found Christian Science to be practical, satisfying, and demonstrable, are many intelligent, well-educated persons holding positions of truth and responsibility, as well as those in humbler walks of life. Wherever Christian Science finds them, it is the universal testimony of its adherents that acquaintance with the subject has made them better in health, in morals, and in every other respect.

The statement that Christian Science teaches that there is no God, only mortal mind, is as far removed from the truth as the east is from the west. The very opposite is true. The term "mortal mind" is used by Mrs. Eddy as the best available term to describe the belief that there is intelligence and life separate from God. On almost every page of Science and Health is the statement in one form or another that God is the only cause or creator, and that He is the only Life or Mind there is. Mrs. Eddy explains over and over again that there is, for this reason, no enduring reality to what she describes as mortal mind or its phenomena. She insists that in fact there is no reality apart from "infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation" (Science and Health, p. 468).

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