Article February 14, 1925 Issue

What was said about Christian Science and its Founder...

Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church,—Springfield, Massachusetts

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What was said about Christian Science and its Founder by the speaker in a "gospel tent" at Springfield, as reported in your issue of recent date, showed that he had better preach his own conception of the Christian gospel and allow other people the same privilege. What he said about Christian Science and about Mrs. Eddy was mainly an expression of ignorance. In effect, it furnished instances of how some opponents of Christian Science repeat each other's fictions.

The speaker in question also attempted to disprove the teaching of Christian Science that good, not evil, is real, by the following question. "How could we explain the number of jails, wars, insane asylums, and such things," he asked, "if there were no sin?" Such an argument shows that he is not acquainted with the ordinary definitions of the word "real," and does not know what people mean when they distinguish between what is real and what is only apparent. The Christian Science conception of reality is purely spiritual, and it is based on the words and works of Christ Jesus. The following excerpt from Mrs. Eddy's principal book is submitted for the information of your readers, as briefly stating the teaching of Christian Science on this point: "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" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 472).

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