Article March 17, 1917 Issue

A more careful study of Christian Science on our critic's...

C. W. J. Tennant—Hitcham, England

North Herts Mail

A more careful study of Christian Science on our critic's part would have prevented him from making statements which, although true in the absolute sense, cannot be held to be true in the relative sense which he intended. For instance, he declares that Christian Science says there is no such thing as suffering. In the absolute sense this is perfectly true. By the absolute I mean that in God, divine Principle, Life, Truth, and Love, there can be no suffering. It does not proceed from the creator, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." On the other hand, to the relative or temporal sense sin and suffering seem very real. In this connection the teaching of Christian Science is made very plain by Mrs. Eddy in the following passage from page 460 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

Christian Science is not a new religion, as our critic seems to imagine; it is Christianity in its pure and primitive form, healing the sick as well as reforming the sinner. It is fulfilling the injunction of the Founder of Christianity to go into all the world and preach the gospel and heal the sick,—not by will-power, material means, or any other contrivance of the human mind, but through the spiritual understanding of the word of God, who forgives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases. The practice of Christianity in the first century of the Christian era destroyed the "works of the devil,"—sin, disease, suffering, and death,—and it will do so again in the twentieth.

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