Article September 18, 1915 Issue

Your kind report of a recent Christian Science lecture...

S. T. Downs

Goshen (Ind.) News-Times

Your kind report of a recent Christian Science lecture contains some inaccurate statements of Christian Science teaching. We refer to what was said about the mission of Christ Jesus, and particularly your statement that Christian Science denies the resurrection. These resulted in large measure, no doubt, from a failure to grasp fully that in Christian Science the term Jesus is employed chiefly to distinguish the physical man, or the humanity of the Master, from the eternal Christ he came to reveal. The definition of Christ as given on page 583 of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, is, "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."

Christian Science shows that the belief in God as corporeal, or as an enlarged physical being subject to change and human persuasion, has produced all the sin, sickness, and death the world has ever known, because a limited concept of God produces a like concept of man, since man is God's image and likeness. So, students who would clearly grasp and quickly demonstrate the truth about God and man as set forth in Christian Science, begin by fixing firmly in consciousness the defninition of God, based entirely on Bible teaching, to be found on page 465 of Science and Health : "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

It will be seen that Christian Science, instead of denying that Jesus overcame death and the grave, proclaims his resurrection to be the proof that mankind will finally triumph over sin, disease, and death, through Christ, Truth. The resurrection proves the power of Life to annul the belief of death, and the power of Truth and Love to destroy hate, envy, jealousy, revenge, and all sin; and Jesus accomplished the wonderful work through his understanding of God, and the real man as God's image and likeness. In the present destruction of sin, sickness, disease, poverty, and all misery through the understanding that Christian Science gives, we begin to realize something of the glorious heritage that awaits us when through the power of divine Love and self-effacement we rise to the fulfilment of the Master's promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

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