Article June 17, 1922 Issue

As Christian Science, when correctly presented, is never...

Aaron E. Brandt,

Johnstown Ledger

As Christian Science, when correctly presented, is never at a disadvantage regarding Bible teaching, as recently claimed by a clergyman, I shall appreciate space in which to present to your readers a brief reply to his remarks, as published in a recent issue.

Christian Science presents the teaching of Christ Jesus as an exact Science based on spiritual law. Naturally this law never varies and is applicable to every circumstance of mankind, comforting the sorrowing, purifying the sinner, and healing every known disease. Therefore Mrs. Eddy wrote, on page 313 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." Every thinking reader will recognize at once the importance of getting, from authentic sources, correct information regarding such a teaching. Now one of the simplest statements that can be made regarding this law is that "like produces like." Jesus never departed from it. It appears clearly in his logical declaration that a good tree cannot produce evil fruit, nor an evil tree produce good fruit. From the same standpoint of scientific knowledge based on absolute law, he said to Nicodemus, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

By strict adherence to this law Mrs. Eddy has reconciled Scriptural teaching from the beginning to the end of the Bible, teaching which cannot be reconciled in any other way. By this law it will be revealed that the same distinction which Jesus made between Spirit and flesh was made in the first and second chapters of Genesis, between spiritual man, made in the image and likeness of God, sinless and forever blessed of the Father, and man made of dust. It is the spiritual man of God, and not a mortal sinner, that never becomes sick or commits sin. For as we read in John, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." Here the same absolute law is made apparent. That which is of God cannot be sinful or sick. "As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly."

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