Article October 17, 1925 Issue

As reported in a recent issue of your paper, a bishop...

Frank J. Linsley, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,—Norwich

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As reported in a recent issue of your paper, a bishop spoke kindly of Christian Science in a sermon, when he said: "Christian Science is right in many things. It is right when it teaches the power of mind over matter and the power of the spirit to exercise control over the body." We would, however, point out that in the practice of Christian Science it is not the exercise of human will, but the operation of the divine Mind which heals. The bishop was evidently not fully informed regarding the real teaching of Christian Science, when he stated that "it denies the reality of things." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which contains the whole and undivided garment of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy reveals the nature and character of God as divine Life, Truth, and Love. And on page 472 she writes: "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God."

By authority of the Scripture, God being all and in all, Christian Scientists believe in the reality of God, and of His spiritual universe, including spiritual man, and deny the reality of all that is unlike the divine qualities of God. Jesus said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Even many physical scientists understand and are proving to-day that matter can no longer be regarded as substance or reality. Therefore, while Christian Science denies the seeming reality of the claims of sin, disease, and death, it affirms the power and presence of God to help and heal every condition in human experience. Christian Scientists are proving their faith and spiritual understanding by their works.

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