Article March 3, 1917 Issue

While Christian Science teaches the unreality of sin as it...

Avery Coonley

Ottawa (Ill.) Republican-Times

While Christian Science teaches the unreality of sin as it teaches the unreality of disease and disaster, it substantiates the correctness of its teaching by the overcoming of both sin and sickness. Jesus not only indicated that these were related, as when he said to the scribes regarding the sick of the palsy, "Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?" but he also indicated the fact that they do not belong to the eternal realities or the legitimate heritage of man, by destroying them both, although he said of himself, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

To show that Mrs. Eddy's teaching about sin, gleaned from the Bible as were all her teachings, while showing the individual how to overcome and destroy sin, does not at all relieve him from the necessity of overcoming it, let me quote from page 327 of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy: "The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way."

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