Article April 17, 1920 Issue

As reported in the Times a no doubt well meaning lady...

John M. Dean

Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times

As reported in the Times a no doubt well meaning lady critic of Christian Science has been giving out a wealth of misinformation on that subject.

"Science falsely so called," was evidently a term used by Paul in warning Timothy against false or haphazard methods in every realm of thought, including religion. Incidentally it may be remarked that Christian Scientists are thoroughly familiar with this warning and its wholesome advice is very helpful to them. That true Christianity must be scientific and therefore demonstrable, may be a new thing to most people, yet being the truth it is as old as God. Christian Scientists have a considerable acquaintance with the Bible, for they make it their daily study and, while they undoubtedly interpret it differently from others, it is their chart of life. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is a commentary on Scripture, and its revelations of the long hidden truths of the Book of books bring about a constant spiritual unfoldment to those who really want to understand it.

Christian Science denies the existence of sin on the basis that, as the loving God could not and would not make it, it was never made. They do not deny it as a belief which is a corollary of a purely mortal and material sense of existence, but as this sense of existence has no real relation to spiritual and divine living and is provably destructive, they contend that it is not an entity and is therefore no more real than wrong thinking makes it. In other words, it has no more power or reality than the mathematical mistake that two times two are five. When the student of mathematics learns that two times two are four, that is the end of the mistaken belief. It is not an entity to be perpetuated or passed along to some other person. It was never more or less than a false belief, and thus it spontaneously disappears from the consciousness of the one who was deluded by it. The Scripture reference, "The wages of sin is death," receives full support from Mrs. Eddy's statement (Science and Health, p. 6), "Every supposed pleasure in sin will furnish more than its equivalent of pain, until belief in material life and sin isdestroyed." That sin is God-sent and therefore is indestructible and eternal, is unthinkable to those who take the trouble to reason independently of man-made doctrines.

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