Article April 7, 1923 Issue

The pantheistic teaching that all is God ostensibly means...

Louis E. Scholl, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,

Tacoma Daily Ledger

The pantheistic teaching that all is God ostensibly means that God and the material universe are identical. Christian Science, on the contrary, does not materialize Spirit or spiritualize matter. Christian Science unreservedly accepts the Scriptural teaching that God is Spirit, and that His true worshipers must worship Him spiritually. This plainly is not "revived ancient pantheism," but revived primitive Christianity instead; or, in other words, it is obeying the inspired command to "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

Christian Science does not practice "forms of suggestion," as the critic says. Suggestion is employed in the attempt of one human mind to manipulate another, and admittedly lends itself as readily to immoral as to nominal moral practice. Every effort to confuse Christian Science with hypnotic suggestion is futile, for Christian Science is based solely on spiritual understanding. It heals all manner of disease; and, because every healing inspires the one who is healed to search the Scriptures to know more of God, it blesses as it heals. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 22), "That Christian Science is Christian, those who have demonstrated it, according to the rules of its divine Principle,—together with the sick, the lame, the deaf, and the blind, healed by it,—have proven to a waiting world. He who has not tested it, is incompetent to condemn it; and he who is a willing sinner, cannot demonstrate it."

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