Article April 1, 1922 Issue

It was with interest that I read your correspondent's...

Marie Hartman—The Hague, Holland (translation)

Eenheid

It was with interest that I read your correspondent's letter in regard to Christian Science, and I was glad to learn that he has observed in most of the Scientists "a great deal of intelligence," and "the expression of a high refinement,"

In contrast, however, with some of his statements I can gratefully acknowledge that in Christian Science I have indeed found an answer to "the deepest life-problems." Before I heard of Christian Science I had, like many others, sought a solution for them in different ways. In my opinion an answer was not to be found in resignation to all disharmony, nor in blind acceptance of a theory or a faith, but in an understanding which explains the coherence of things, solves the seeming contradictions, and reveals something of the eternal reality, the prinal harmony; and Christian Science has given me all this.

I have learned to understand that the divine Principle, God, is no more responsible for disharmony than the law of any so-called science is responsible for the mistakes made in the application thereof. Disharmony is nothing but the result of not applying the laws of divine Principle, while the application of those laws inevitably shows man's conformity with the absolute, the abiding, the eternal, and therefore with harmony. No science tries to account for the mistakes which may be made in the application thereof. As the truth of the science is unfolded clearly and completely to the student, for him the possibility of making mistakes gradually disappears, because he constantly learns more and more how to apply the science according to its rules and laws. The fact becomes ever to him that the mistakes which he formerly made never could change aught in the science; and that their they had neither place, origin, nor being, and that their seeming reality disappeared together with the incomplete, unenlightened sense of the science which had made the making of the mistakes possible.

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