Article March 4, 1922 Issue

Under the subhead, "Cracks Christian Science," your...

Willard J. Welch—Marshalltown, Iowa

The Times-Republican

Under the subhead, "Cracks Christian Science," your paper reports a revivalist's attack not on Christian Science, but on his entirely mistaken concept of a religion that is indeed bringing Christ in healing to hundreds of thousands of sick and suffering mortals. Lest some of your readers be misled, allow me to state the teachings of Christian Science correctly on the questions involved.

The Bible says that we shall know the quality of anything by the fruit it brings forth. That which heals the soul of sin, heals the body of disease, brings the drunken and sin-besotted out of their false love of evil, is good because it does good. It must undeniably be of God, because all good comes from God. Christian Science does indeed teach that there is no reality in the sin that enslaves mankind, that there is no reality in evil. Both are the works of the devil, the evil one, which Jesus said he came to destroy. The Master could not and would not destroy what God made. It is plain that God, Love, could not make evil, and that the good He did make is eternal and therefore indestructible.

Christian Science does not, however, claim that sin, disease, and inharmony do not seem all too true to the human concept of being. But reason, logic, and revelation all declare that they cannot be real in the absolute sense because they can be and are destroyed; whereas that which is absolutely real must be indestructible, because God-created. Careful thinking people will admit that he who is a real evangelist should bring "good tidings of great joy" to suffering humanity. He who does this is so busy feeding his flock that he has neither time nor inclination to abuse a religion proved helpful to many thousands of truth-seekers.

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