Article June 10, 1916 Issue

A summary of what our critic had to say would tend to...

W. G. Watkins

Antigo (Wis.) Journal

A summary of what our critic had to say would tend to make God responsible for evil as well as good,—a kind of logic which the Scriptures declare to be a "house divided against itself." Christian Science recognizes God to be spiritual, and, as stated in the account of creation, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good;" furthermore, "without him was not any thing made that was made." God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and cannot look on iniquity. The real man, created in the image and likeness of God, is also spiritual, and what seems to constitute his material existence has its place in the realm of mortal belief,—wholly apart from the true creation.

No greater evidence could be forthcoming, and surely none is more satisfactory to suffering humanity, than the results which are being wrought out in Christian Science practice in the healing of all manner of disease as well as sin. Christianity as a mere theory is being supplanted by that which is practical. Feeding on husks of material opinions as to what the Scripture teaches is giving way to an ever-increasing realization of the power and presence of Him in whom "we live, and move, and have our being."

Our brother says, "The way to abolish pain and sickness and death is to get this world converted to Christ, all the races transformed into His likeness, and then the groaning will cease." Christian Scientists heartily agree to this, but they are not satisfied with merely believing it; they are proving it. In their daily experience they are finding the truth of Whittier's words:—

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