Article September 23, 1922 Issue

In reply to a critic's letter, in a recent issue of your paper,...

Charles W. J. Tennant, Committee on Publication for London,—Stoke Newington, England

Hackney and Stoke Newington Recorder

In reply to a critic's letter, in a recent issue of your paper, I may say that when he comprehends God as infinite Mind, and the universe, including man, as the infinite spiritual or mental expression of this Mind, he will then begin to comprehend the meaning of the statement, "God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468). He should know by this time that since God is Spirit, His manifestation must be spiritual. A finite and material sense of God, which is the only sense the carnal mind can have, engenders a finite and material sense of the universe and man. This false sense must be got rid of: it must give place to the true or spiritual sense. Our critic must understand the difference between Spirit and its spiritual manifestation, which are eternal, and the material and temporal, which will eventually pass away.

Christian Science teaches that God is the only Being, because God is infinite Spirit, and includes the universe and man in His image and likeness. It also teaches that matter is no part of God, and that there is in reality no matter. These facts do not teach any Christian Scientist to deny his own existence, or else affirm that he is God, as our critic avers. The philosophy and theology of Christian Science are certainly not human, but divine. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 364 of her book "Miscellaneous Writings": "Christian Science refutes everything that is not a postulate of the divine Principle, God. It is the soul of divine philosophy, and there is no other philosophy. It is not a search after wisdom, it is wisdom: it is God's right hand grasping the universe,—all time, space, immortality, thought, extension, cause, and effect; constituting and governing all identity, individuality, law, and power. It stands on this Scriptural platform: that He made all that was made, and it is good, reflects the divine Mind, is governed by it; and that nothing apart from this Mind, one God, is self-created or evolves the universe."

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