Article May 13, 1922 Issue

Will you permit me to state that Christian Science is...

Kate E. Andreae—Bexhill-on-Sea, England

Bexhill Observer

Will you permit me to state that Christian Science is neither a semi-new nor a party spiritual healing method. The good results heard at testimony meetings, of which the critic speaks, are attained entirely through the understanding and acceptance of Jesus' promises as given in the gospels.

Mrs. Eddy does not teach, as this critic avers, that "our material bodies are spirit." They are not and never can be made so. Neither does she teach that man in the flesh is sinless. These misrepresentations arise from the failure to grasp in the slightest degree that which the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science has stated in her writings. In the textbook of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy explains the fact that man in the flesh, comprising sin, disease, and death, is not the ideal man whom God created. He is obviously not the image and likeness of God. The Bible says in Romans, "They that are in the flesh cannot please God." The flesh with its pleasures and pains, its weaknesses and sins, constituting material man, is but the mask hiding from view the invincible idea, God's spiritual, perfect man. It is therefore the endeavor of Christian Scientists to gain the understanding of man's true being as he exists in God's sight and to affirm God's ever-presence, until the material evidence (the flesh which profiteth nothing) yields its counterfeit existence to the might and power of a right concept of eternal manhood; and as the psalmist says, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."

The life of Mrs. Eddy was a ministry of love; her mission, to help and uplift mankind. She knew that the human mind is the sinner. On page 292 of her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes: "This carnal material mentality, misnamed mind, is mortal. Therefore man would be annihilated, were it not for the spiritual real man's indissoluble connection with his God, which Jesus brought to light. In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed that a mortal man is not the real essence of manhood, and that this unreal material mortality disappears in presence of the reality." Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." He came to save sinners; and by his great sacrifice he proved for all time to all mankind by his resurrection, the unconquerable dominion of true being, which could not be mastered by the grave. He put all enemies under his feet. And by this demonstration of divine power were revealed the might and permanence of truth, the powerlessness of the carnal mind to kill its destroyer, and man's at-one-ment with the Father.

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