Article March 3, 1917 Issue

The lecture that was delivered at the Y. M. C. A. on "The...

Mrs. Mary A. Fisher

The Singapore (Straits Settlements) Free Press

The lecture that was delivered at the Y. M. C. A. on "The Claims of Christian Science," though intended doubtless to be fair, was so far from a correct statement of Christian Science that I beg the privilege to state through your columns some of the fundamental truths of this Science and to correct some of the wrong impressions given in the lecture.

Christian Science rests on the basis that God is All-in-all, and that man is made in God's image and likeness, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis. Christian Science distinguishes between absolute and relative truth, claiming only that as real which is the perfect creation of God, eternal Mind, and declaring the false beliefs of sin, disease, and death, which obtain in mortal mind, to be unreal. In the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, it is stated on page 345 that "anybody, who is able to perceive the incongruity between God's idea and poor humanity, ought to be able to discern the distinction (made by Christian Science) between God's man, made in His image, and the sinning race of Adam."

It is this distinction that is made between the one infinite, eternal Mind, which is God, and the sinning, erring mortal mind. It is not the perfect idea of God that needs to be healed, but the mortal mind that requires to be freed from its false beliefs of sin, sickness, and death. Christian Science is the truth about God and man, understood and demonstrated. It is neither hypnotism nor mental suggestion.

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