Article December 22, 1923 Issue

While it is true that Christian Science denies the reality...

Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York

Medical Times

While it is true that Christian Science denies the reality of disease as a part of God's creation, it by no means ignores it as a phase of human experience. Quite the contrary. This Science of Christianity not only deals directly with disease, but also teaches, and in a gratifying manner is to-day demonstrating, that since disease is purely the result of wrong thinking, it can be successfully met and destroyed only through the process of right thinking. All of which is in strict accordance with the teachings of both the Old and the New Testament. There is, furthermore, nothing strange or unusual in the distinction which Christian Science makes between the real and that which it designates as the unreal. For instance, among other usages of the word "real," responsible lexicographers employ it to indicate that which takes on the nature of fact, actual being, "something existing intrinsically or inherently, as distinguished from the seeming or apparent." Consistent with this meaning of the word, Christian Scientists hold that Spirit and spiritual ideas alone constitute the fact or reality of being; while matter and things pertaining thereto, including all phases of disease, are classified as unreal and temporal. It was precisely this distinction between the real and the unreal to which Christ Jesus referred when he said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing."

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