Article October 6, 1923 Issue

In Christian Science, matter, mortal error, and evil are...

Miss Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,—Letchworth

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In Christian Science, matter, mortal error, and evil are accepted as synonyms and treated as mere negations, having neither permanence nor real substance. James in his epistle advises that we lay aside the "superfluity of naughtiness;" and naughtiness may be taken to mean that which is not—nothingness. Sin and disease are errors of belief; and if, by understanding the allness of God, they can be reduced to their native nothingness, it will be well for the world; and Christian Scientists are proving that this is possible. To have to test God's almightiness by His power to create what is obviously unlike Himself, and totally opposed to Him, is surely an anomalous, illogical, and altogether impossible position to accept. Those who understand this Science are proving it to be exact in its logic, and a glorious revelation of the almightiness of God. There are many thousands who are doing this, and learning to know, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 99 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "the calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God's spiritual, perfect man."

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