Article February 28, 1925 Issue

In the report of the Diocesan Conference, given in your...

Miss V. M. Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,—St. Albans

Hertfordshire Advertiser & St. Albans Times

In the report of the Diocesan Conference, given in your issue of recent date, a clergyman touches on the subject of Christian Science. In speaking of what is happening now, he says some people are turning to "fancy cults," like theosophy and Christian Science. It would be well to point out that theosophy, which deals largely with the belief that Spirit is manifested through material phenomena, is entirely opposed to Christian Science, which accepts the great fact that since God, Spirit, is the only creator of the universe, creation must resemble its creator, and thus be spiritual and not material,—never expressed through matter, Spirit's opposite.

After calling Christian Science a "fancy cult," the clergyman proceeds to speak of Christian Scientists as "extraordinarily difficult to convince." He, however, wants "the same tenacity of belief in the Christian church." With regard to this, it can be shown that Christian Science does not partake of the nature of doctrinal belief or creed, but of exact, provable Science. If one who has unknowingly thought that two and two make five, and accordingly got all his problems wrong, should find not only that two and two make four but that he can prove that they do, and get his problems right, would he not be "extraordinarily difficult to convince" that his old method was the better, or that his newly-found knowledge was "fancy"? The Science of Christianity reveals to mankind the spiritual laws of Life which, as Paul said, would make free "from the law of sin and death;" hence its healing power.

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