Article December 1, 1917 Issue

I was much interested in the letter from a contributor to...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

Worcester (Mass.) Post

I was much interested in the letter from a contributor to the Post, who did not sign his name, in which he said it was strange that a congregation of intelligent people should be willing to listen to a Sunday service on the subject "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" Of course your contributor referred to Christian Scientists; for Christian Science is the religion which has raised this question. Semiannually this question is the subject of a Lesson-Sermon in our church services.

It would have been sensible, I believe, for this correspondent to have attended the service when he read that this question would be the subject thereof. If he had done this, he might have concluded that the question is not so strange as is the fact that humanity has not until recently considered it a question. The strange thing is, that mankind has been content to regard as natural that which is utterly contrary to the nature of God, the only creator. Mrs. Eddy has said, "Nature and God are one and the natural order of heaven comes down to earth" (Science and Health, p. 118).

After all that can be said has been said, the answer to the question "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" must be tested by human experience. Superficially considered, this experience would seem to furnish only an affirmative answer, but the practice of Christian Science by the continual prolongation and enlargement of human life has proved and is proving the contrary. If your contributor and other readers wish to know the Principle of these effects and the basis from which Christian Science declares that sin, disease, and death are not real, this information can be obtained by attending the services of any Christian Science church, or by reading in any public library the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

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