Article February 26, 1916 Issue

The News of recent date contained an account of an address...

Henry Van Arsdale—Monrovia, Cal.

The Weekly Monrovian

The News of recent date contained an account of an address by a clergyman who attempts to "review" an authorized lecture on Christian Science. Much that the clergyman is reported as having said is based upon his own misapprehension, or misreading, of the lecture.

Christian Science has nothing to do with psychology, as the latter term is generally understood; it is therefore not to be wondered at that the lecturer disagreed with writers on psychology. Christian Science is what the term indicates, knowledge gained by correct thinking, verified by proof, and formulated in a rational system derived from and relating to the Christ, or what is known as the Christian religion. It is not, therefore, a "hodge-podge," a "mixture," or a "misinterpretation."

The critic is most unfortunate in the quotations used from the published lecture and from the Bible. He quotes the lecturer as saying, "When we have knowledge of the truth, we get practical results," and again, "The lecturer said the personal concept of God is incorrect." What the lecturer did say about knowledge of the truth was to quote Jesus, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and to show that practical results, such as the emancipation of humanity from sin, sickness, poverty, and death, will come about when this knowledge of the truth Jesus referred to shall have displaced and destroyed all false beliefs. If there is no evil or sickness in consciousness, these could never be expressed; all that can be manifested in action will be true and good, and there will be no "devil" to "know" anything or be "incarnate" in anything.

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