Article September 30, 1922 Issue

If one will read the works of Mrs. Eddy he will find on...

Brigman C. Odom, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,

Gainesville Daily Register

If one will read the works of Mrs. Eddy he will find on every page and in almost every paragraph references to sin, sickness, and death, or to evil in some form. This teaching is not speculation or theory about the nature or origin of evil; it is the truth about it. It does not point out to one certain phases of error or evil practices, and tell him that he should avoid them or overcome them, and leave him there to grope in the dark; but it shows him what the error is, and why it is, and how it can be handled, overcome or destroyed.

Christian Science does not teach that sin, sickness, and death do not appear real to human sense, or to one uninstructed in spiritual reality. To such a one they seem very real, and he feels deeply the need of something that will calm the storm and make still the waves; and he finds it through the loving ministration of Christian Science. Christian Science does teach that evil in all its forms is unreal, in the sense that God is not its author. Christian Science teaches that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," "with whom is no variableness;" that "all things were made by him;" that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

Christian Science is in accord with all the fundamental teachings of the Bible; and so the standard set by it for righteous living is a high one: it is not beyond human reach, but it requires some human effort in order to reach it. It is in accord with Jesus when he said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." It teaches that "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish;" it teaches that one cannot have "clean hands, and a pure heart" until he shall have paid "the uttermost farthing;" it subscribes to the teaching of Paul, that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

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