Article May 20, 1916 Issue

In a recent letter to the Record, "A Wanderer," writing...

John M. Tutt—Butler, Mo.

The Bates County Record,

In a recent letter to the Record, "A Wanderer," writing of the Bates County of thirty years ago, wandered from his subject to ventilate his opinions concerning Christian Science. In so doing he expresses some evident misconceptions. It is but fair that your readers, and "Wanderer" himself, should be set right upon a subject so profoundly affecting the welfare of humanity.

The deeply religious character and Scriptural origin of Christian Science is shown in its teaching that God is the author of all that really exists, and that all His creation partakes of His divine nature, hence is wholly good. The illusive, unreal nature of all that is unlike good is a logical conclusion drawn from premises unreservedly acceptable to all Christians. The "apparent inconsistencies" alluded to by our critic apply reversely to the so-called orthodox beliefs of a creation of God so inherently imperfect as to contain the seeds of discord, evil, disease, and death. In denying reality to matter, sin, disease, and death, Christian Science exalts God and His creation and restores even human life to a normality, a soundness, which cannot be hoped for under a system that seeks to harmonize good and evil, Spirit and matter.

To seek to eliminate sin and disease from human experience on the ground of their destructibility, which involves their unreality, will be found to conserve rather than, as "Wanderer" avers, "to disorganize a normal dealing with life." The opposite attempt to get rid of these errors while affirming their reality has not in all the centuries advanced the world to a position of sinlessness. No man can be deceived by counterfeit money when he has learned its unreal character, and certainly it is consistent practice to eliminate it from circulation. Christian Science wars against sin and disease, "not as one that beateth the air," but as having expectation of victory over counterfeit concepts about God's creation, man and the universe.

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