Article September 2, 1922 Issue

A clergyman, in a recent issue of your paper, expresses...

Hettie Williams, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,

Gloucestershire Echo

A clergyman, in a recent issue of your paper, expresses his opinion that Mrs. Eddy's idea of God is "wholly wrong," which idea he states to be "that He knew nothing about sin or disease or death, because these things had no actual existence." As a matter of fact, Christian Science teaches the reverse,—that is, that these things do not, cannot, exist as actualities, however real they may seem to material sense, because God does not know them and because they do not originate in Him, without whom, according to Scripture, "was not any thing made that was made." Working from this logical basis, physical healing by spiritual means is not considered miraculous by Christian Scientists, but rather a natural result of a better understanding of God and man. Christian Science has also shown that it is ignorance, or lack of knowledge, even more than lack of faith, which seems to hinder the healing work.

To blindly accept or repeat the now familiar formula of M. Coue, or to attribute the improving mental conditions of the world to the study of psychology, practically amounts to having other gods, acknowledging other powers; and it tends to obscure the fact that it is the activity of the divine Mind, or the coming of the Christ to the human consciousness, which is dispelling its shadows and exposing its deceptions; and is, through the revelation of Christian Science, awakening the world to the fact that it is the belief in the reality and power of sin and evil which is holding it in darkness and bondage, and that nothing less than the knowledge (understanding) of the truth as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, can ever be "the light of the world." or make it free.

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