Article October 11, 1924 Issue

In a recent issue a clergyman is reported as having said:...

Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Asbury Park

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In a recent issue a clergyman is reported as having said: "Christian Scientists tell us that there is no materialism." He also stated that he had "never yet found a Christian Scientist who would not accept the right change from a five-dollar bill." For the benefit of your readers, and that a misleading statement may not go uncorrected, I have to say that every statement made by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has Scriptural authority and is susceptible of proof, and therefore is true. She does say on page 65 of the above-mentioned book: "The broadcast powers of evil so conspicuous to-day show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of the age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era." Any one who will stop to reason it out for himself must come to the logical conclusion that since God is Spirit and God made all that was made, His creation must be spiritual; for like always produces like. On this basis the material, which is the supposititious opposite of the spiritual, must be the counterfeit of the true, and must be untrue. There cannot, therefore, be two creations, one material and one spiritual, both real and eternal. As to the latter statement of the clergyman, please note that the teaching of Christian Science is to do right, to act justly, to love one's neighbor as one's self, by putting into practice the Golden Rule, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

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