Article February 23, 1924 Issue

Christian Science is a practical, demonstrable, spiritual...

Herbert L. Standeven, Committee on Publication for the State of Oklahoma,—Muskogee

Times Democrat

Christian Science is a practical, demonstrable, spiritual religion; is consistent, and in complete harmony with all the teachings of our beloved Master, Christ Jesus. Christian Science takes the positive stand that matter is not real or eternal. The only reality that it recognizes is God, Spirit, and all things spiritual, and man made in His image and likeness.

Some of the greatest thinkers of the world declare that the properties of matter are mental. Professor Fiske, formerly a lecturer on philosophy in Harvard University, says, "All the qualities of matter are what the mind makes them, and have no existence apart from the mind." He also says, "Apart from consciousness, there is no such thing as color, form, position, or hardness, and there is no such thing as matter." An extract from a textbook on physics by Henderson and Woodhull, of Columbia University, has the following: "Matter makes itself known to us by the testimony of the senses; ... we see, hear, taste, feel, in our consciousness only. We cannot assert therefore that matter exists apart from our consciousness."

If Christian Science affirmed that life was in matter, then it would be inconsistent to deny the existence of matter; but Christian Science follows the Scriptures, and affirms that life is in God and not in matter; for it is written, "In him we live, and move, and have our being. ... For we are also his offspring." God being Spirit, can we imagine His offspring being material, and subject to sickness, disease, and death? It is only the belief in a mortal man, a merely supposititious creation, that is subject to sickness, disease, and death. However, Christian Science recognizes that "sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient," as Mrs. Eddy says on page 460 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." To mortal sense sickness may seem the most real thing in the world. Therefore, it is the province of Christian Science to correct the false sense of the patient, deny the existence of life in matter, recognize the allness of God, and declare that life is spiritual and eternal, and cannot be destroyed by a false belief in sickness, disease, or death.

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