Article February 27, 1926 Issue

A recent issue of your paper contained a misleading reference...

Clyde Johnson, Committee on Publication for the State of Wyoming,—Casper

Daily Tribune

A recent issue of your paper contained a misleading reference to the teachings of Christian Science, and we ask the courtesy of your columns for a statement concerning it. It is true that Christian Science does not recognize "sin, pain, or matter" as real, but it is also true that it does not fail to recognize their part in the experience of mortals. Christian Science does not ignore evil, but teaches how even its most subtle forms may be brought to light and overcome through the understanding of God and His immutable law of harmony. To understand what Christian Science teaches regarding the unreality of "sin, pain, or matter," necessitates an acceptance of the correct meaning of "reality," as used by Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Webster defines "reality" as "actual being or existence, in distinction from mere appearance." In perfect accord with this, Mrs. Eddy says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 335): "Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal," adding farther on in the same book (p. 472): "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." One of the five physical senses testifies that the rails of a railroad track converge in the distance. All of them testify that sin and pain and matter are real. The testimony in the second case is no more reliable than in the first. The Scriptures teach us that God created all things and saw that His creation was good. It was Christ Jesus who said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." To charge God with having created the flesh, which "profiteth nothing," and its concomitants, sin and pain, is unthinkable.

Many have been the preachments against Christian Science; but those who indulge in them "imagine a vain thing." For many years its opponents have endeavored by "their much speaking" to stop or impede its onward march, but without avail. Now comes one speaking of it as "nothing," while pretending to refrain from speaking at all. Christian Science, with its remarkable success in regenerating and healing mankind, can neither be talked into oblivion nor waved aside as nothing. Neither audible criticism nor cold, disdainful silence can hinder its stately operations and accomplishments.

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