Article March 6, 1926 Issue

Christian Science cannot be reconciled with your correspondent...

Addington C. Cronk, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,—Hull

Evening News

Christian Science cannot be reconciled with your correspondent "Truth-Seeker's" points of view regarding matter, science, and evolution. Scientific theories must conform to absolute Truth. With regard to matter, physicists themselves are explaining it away. Only recently in Leeds, Sir Oliver Lodge stated that matter is "transient and temporary." What natural science cannot yet reveal, Christian Science does. Respecting the theory of evolution, your correspondent admits that "God is perfect." Is He limitless, or limited? The answer to this all-important question makes known how much of perfection there already is. The Scriptures declare there is "one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." This clear statement of the allness or infinitude of God means, then, infinite perfection now. The Bible also reveals God as Spirit; hence infinite spiritual perfection is the scientific truth of all reality. Jesus himself said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." He would not have said this had it needed a process of evolution to bring it about. His life was a constant reversal of the ordinary accepted beliefs; and the Sermon on the Mount is full of truths which completely upset the human concepts of things. But surely divine Truth is real; otherwise, what is the object of Christianity? Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 52), "The 'man of sorrows' best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive God, good."

The dual sense of things is what Christian Science is unraveling; but no such senseless attitude is ever taken by it as to believe that evil is good, or that a murderer is of equal spirituality to a good man or woman. Christ Jesus' spiritual understanding of the true nature of man enabled him to say to blind Bartimæus, "Thy faith hath made thee whole," and to Mary Magdalene, "Thy sins are forgiven." With a large measure of proof Christian Scientists are humbly striving to emulate his works.

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