Article September 16, 1922 Issue

A critic, in a recent issue of your paper, is quite correct...

Gudrun G. Jensen, Committee on Publication for Norway, in the—Fredrikstad, Norway

Ostfold Dagblad

A critic, in a recent issue of your paper, is quite correct when he says that Christian Scientists have a strong faith, since this faith is founded upon the teachings of the Bible itself. When it is said, however, that Christian Science teaches that sin, disease, and death are imaginary, there should follow adequate explanation. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 230 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt with drugs, or without, to destroy a quality or condition of Truth? But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the forever coming of Christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick." Therefore, in order to be healed, it is not sufficient to believe that sickness is imaginary. One must understand that only what God has created is real, and that, consequently, sin, sickness, and all evil are unreal because these evils do not originate in God.

Jesus said: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth;" and, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." These words show that Jesus plainly saw the nothingness of matter; and, through his perfect view of man as the image of God, he healed all manner of disease and cast out all evil. Hence it is not, as the critic seems to believe, through mere chance that Christian Scientists succeed in healing, but it is due to a right understanding of the teachings of Christ Jesus and of his commandment, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils;" and this includes deliverance from all evil. The host of happy people, who are to be found in all parts of the civilized world where the teachings of Christian Science show forth the signs which Jesus said should follow those who believe in him, is bearing withness to this. The countenances of Christian Scientists express inward joy, peace, and gratitude, because they are conscious of having part in the heritage due to man created in God's image.

Christian Scientists understand the "old simple Christian faith" to be the teaching and gospel preached by Christ Jesus, which he commanded all to follow; and this original Christendom is again revived by the interpretation of the Bible given through the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. This book is therefore rightly named a "Key to the Scriptures," and it gives to the Savior his rightful position as the Son of God, as "the way, the truth, and the life," and acknowledges this way as the only way that leads to salvation. The teaching of Christian Science has, therefore, nothing in common with the beliefs of the dark Middle Ages, but is the means by which the light of the divine Mind may expel all darkness.

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