Article August 29, 1914 Issue

A friend has sent to me for comment or reply, a clipping...

Judge Clifford P. Smith—Springfield, Mass.

The Republican

A friend has sent to me for comment or reply, a clipping from a recent issue of The Republican containing a report of a sermon delivered at Springfield, in which Christian Science was denounced for the reason, as our brother put it, that this Science teaches that the dead are conscious. This, he said, is its fundamental fact; and this, he concluded, makes Christian Science an enemy of the Christian church. What Christian Science does teach is that the being which we have in God is continuous and permanent; that life and consciousness are inseparable; and that, from the view-point of absolute truth, all men are alive. As Christ Jesus himself said, "He [God] is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." In a word, Christian Science teaches that the living are conscious, and will ever continue to be so.

The fundamental facts of Christian Science are, therefore, the present facts of eternal life, as distinguished from the false sense of existence which includes fear and torment; and the way that Christian Science offers by which to escape the "eternal torment" dwelt upon in this sermon, is to gain the true sense of being and of what real life includes.

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