Article October 2, 1920 Issue

A recent article in your editorial columns says: "A politician...

Louis E. Scholl

Yakima (Wash.) American

A recent article in your editorial columns says: "A politician has the Christian Science attitude in regard to profiteering. He escapes the necessity of finding a remedy by professing inability to find the evil." A protest is offered to this statement because such an attitude toward profiteering can in no way be likened to the Christian Science attitude toward evil of any kind.

Christian Science, like Christianity, came to the world because of the necessity for a remedy for the world's evil. If Mrs. Eddy had professed inability to find evil, she would never have discovered Christian Science. Realizing fully the awfulness of evil, she sought the remedy, and like the "merchant man, seeking goodly pearls," of whom Jesus told, she, having found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that she had and bought it. On page 226 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes: "The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs and from the educational system of the Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore, hold the children of Israel in bondage. I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged." There is no evidence in any of her writings, of failure to understand the nature of evil or the right method for its destruction.

Selfishness is the disease at the root of political life, and it seems to be as malignant now as when a certain senator declared the purification of politics to be an iridescent dream. Christian Science offers the same solution for economic problems that Jesus offered. Profiteering and all kindred abuses will be no more, only as men come to understand and live the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, or in other words, as men are found, not in selfish self-righteousness, but reflecting the divine nature.

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