Article March 7, 1925 Issue

Christian Science enables its followers to obey the commands...

John W. Harwood, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Southport

Weekly Herald

Christian Science enables its followers to obey the commands of the Master in the healing of the sick and the casting out of all the evils of the human, carnal, or mortal mind by exactly the same process used by Jesus. Christian Science does indeed teach a complete salvation from all evil. Our critic will agree that evil does not originate in God, divine Mind. Christian Science classifies all evil, sin, disease, and death even as the Scriptures do, as the works of the devil, or as effects of wrong thinking, or the carnal mind, which Paul says is "enmity against God." This devil, or carnal mind, Jesus defined as "a liar," saying that "there is no truth in him." Jesus said to those mortals who expressed opposition to God, "Ye are of your father the devil." Christian Scientists admit the facts of life, but they do not hesitate to expose the falsities of evil. They also accept the plain Biblical statements. Let us take the statement of John which our critic quotes, "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves," together with another statement from the same epistle, "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; ... and he cannot sin." Taken literally, these statements would seem contradictory; but as understood in Christian Science it is seen that John is referring in the first instance to mortals, the offspring of mortal mind, and in the second to the offspring of God, the divine Mind.

Christian Science teaches, in accordance with the Scriptures, that God made man in His own image and likeness, and that therefore, being born of God, divine Mind, man is immortal, and cannot sin. If, as mortals, we said we had no sin, we should indeed deceive ourselves. The way of salvation from all the troubles of so-called mortal existence is, as John declares, by the manifestation of the Son of God,—the Christ,—gained through the spiritual understanding of God. Paul is saying the same thing when he writes that mortality (the old man) must be put off, and immortality (the new man) must be put on. This is what Christian Science teaches.

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