Article August 19, 1922 Issue

An article in your paper mentions that "a New York...

J. G. Rowell, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,

Clinton Daily Democrat

An article in your paper mentions that "a New York financial periodical which reaches this office takes the position that all our financial troubles are purely imaginary," and then infers that this position is that of Christian Science. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Christian Science teaches that God, good, is unlimited, and that as we realize this fact, more of God's abundance comes into our lives. But it does not ignore loss or lack, for it teaches how through right application of God's law to overcome them. Christian Science must not be confused with that counterfeit philosophy which can only cry, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace;" for Christian Science works scientifically from Principle, and gets results whenever rightly applied, just as surely as correct results are obtained in mathematics whenever its rules are correctly used.

Jesus' Christian and scientific understanding of man's real being enabled him to say to the mourners at the home of the ruler of the synagogue, "Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth;" and they, the Bible tells us, "laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead." But Jesus spoke to the maid, and she arose. Now the philosophy of Christian Science is the philosophy that Jesus taught and practiced. It does not teach one simply to repeat, "All is well;" but it does illumine a man's understanding of God and His creation so that he is able to distinguish between that which is real and that which only seems to be so. Christian Science, as set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is therefore a practical religion, applicable even to the present financial problems of the Missouri farmer.

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