Article August 23, 1924 Issue

Christian Science is not a "delusion"; nor is it "deceiving...

Charles W. Hale,—Lafayette

Journal-Courier

Christian Science is not a "delusion"; nor is it "deceiving multitudes." It is a clear, understandable, spiritual religion, based upon the law of God as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. The fact that students can prove the teaching of Christian Science as Jesus said they that believe should do definitely refutes both the allegations, for that which is demonstrable is not a delusion, nor does it deceive any one.

Furthermore, the intimation that Christian Science "does not save its devotees from sin," as made by this revivalist, is in itself not far from a deception. The outstanding purpose of Christian Science is the overcoming of evil and sin, and countless thousands of people bear grateful testimony to its regenerating power—people who have been lifted out of the hopeless depths of every phase of sin.

In answer to the question, "Is healing the sick the whole of Science?" Mrs. Eddy says (Rudimental Divine Science, pp. 2, 3): "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin; and this task, sometimes, may be harder than the cure of disease; because, while mortals love to sin, they do not love to be sick. Hence their comparative acquiescence in your endeavors to heal them of bodily ills, and their obstinate resistance to all efforts to save them from sin through Christ, spiritual Truth and Love, which redeem them, and become their Saviour, through the flesh, from the flesh,—the material world and evil."