Article April 15, 1916 Issue

An evangelist undertakes, after a mere reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

Robert S. Ross—Syracuse, N. Y.

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An evangelist undertakes, after a mere reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, to tell his listeners all there is to know about Christian Science. If instead of merely reading this wonderful book he had studied it, he would have learned that Christian Science consists of something more than negations. To say that there is no matter and abandon the subject, does not in the least enlighten the searcher after truth. To all intents and purposes matter and evil are real to most people. What Christian Science really teaches is that there is no matter, because God, Spirit, Mind, the opposite of matter, is All-in-all.

The person who starts with the premise that divine Principle, Love, is the one and only cause, will, if consistent, inevitably arrive at the conclusion that there can be no effect from any other cause. Surely sin, disease, and death are not effects of Life, Truth, and Love, which constitute Deity, and consequently they are not effects of anything. Therefore they are nothing claiming the reality and actuality of something; in other words, they are illusions, or mere beliefs.

In the proportion that the sinning and suffering realize that sin and sickness are not made by God, in that proportion do they become their master. It was this simple yet profound process of reasoning to which Christ Jesus referred when he said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Science and Health is based on the Bible and is inseparable from it. In not the slightest detail does it depart from the pure idealism of Christ Jesus.

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