Article February 26, 1916 Issue

Two references to Christian Science in your columns indicate...

Lieut. Paul H. Clark—New York, N. Y.

The Army and Navy Journal

Two references to Christian Science in your columns indicate a lack of clear understanding as to what Christian Science is and what it teaches. You speak of Christian Science as a "method of ignoring disagreeable facts."

Christian Science makes clear that everything is governed by law, that the real, genuine, fundamental laws enforce efficiency, completeness, adequacy, and harmony in every part, great and small, of the universe. Christian Science recognizes that in human experience laws appear to operate in opposition to the fundamental laws already referred to, but it shows that in reality there are no other laws than the fundamental laws of God, and that what seem to be opposition laws, producing disease, sorrow, poverty, and the like, are not laws in reality, but only spurious, illegitimate beliefs of law.

Christian Science practice is the enforcement of God's law, and conversely, stops and abolishes spurious law. Christian Science recognizes the human experiences that follow belief in and recognition of these illegitimate laws, but denies to such alleged laws any validity, power, or effect. All of this is daily put in practice and shown to be operative in literally thousands of instances of all kinds of diseases and human problems. The rapid increase in the number of people who in greater or less degree are practising Christian Science is due only to the efficacy with which Christian Science is accomplishing its helpful work. As you are perhaps aware, an increasing number of army and navy people are coming under the benign influence of this return to primitive Christianity.

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