Article May 26, 1917 Issue

A critic, while generously acknowledging the good which...

H. S. Hughes, Jr.,

Whitewater (Wis.) Gazette

A critic, while generously acknowledging the good which he had observed as a resultant of Christian Science, voiced no unusual criticism when he took exception to its teachings as to the unreality of sin and sickness.

"The human mind," writes the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, "has been an idolater from the beginning, having other gods and believing in more than the one Mind" (Science and Health, p. 186). The Founder of Christianity had but one God, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love. His understanding of the spiritual reality of God and His creation embraced man and the universe, and operated to annul the seeming reality of material law in stilling the storm, in walking on the water, in passing through closed doors, and in exchanging the seeming reality of sickness for health, of sin for holiness, of death for life.

While scholastic theology has always taught the allness of God, it also fosters the belief in the reality of sin and sickness, and thus has ever been as a "kingdom divided against itself." Mrs. Eddy goes one step farther in her comprehension of the allness of God. In His omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, like the Master with the spiritual penetration, she saw the only reality of man and the universe, and the consequent unreality of sin and sickness.

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