Article July 24, 1926 Issue

The utterance of a clergyman as reported in your recent...

Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—New Brunswick

Sunday Times

The utterance of a clergyman as reported in your recent issue is very true, in that "A New Concept of God in America" is greatly needed. Surely, a correct concept is greatly needed, but this preacher makes a statement that should not go without correction; therefore I ask space for a brief explanation. The minister said, perhaps unwittingly, that one "cannot altogether be content with the Christian Science idea" that evil is "an illusion—not if you have the hives." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written an article entitled "Origin of Evil" in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 346), in which she says in part: "Evil never did exist as an entity. It is but a belief that there is an opposite intelligence to God." Evil or error is real to mortals who indulge in it. This is borne out in the Scripture, where it is recorded that Jesus the Christ cast out evils and healed the sick. Let it be added that Christian Science has revealed to humanity a true concept of God, and this true concept, when understood, is demonstrated in casting out evils and healing the sick. Hundreds of thousands who have been in bondage to the claims of evil, or in Scriptural language, "whom Satan hath bound," have been released from such bondage through a true concept of God as revealed in Christian Science, thus proving that evil, error, sin, and sickness are illusion. So that Mrs. Eddy's statement that evil is an illusion is a true statement, because susceptible of proof; whereas the opposite belief in the reality of evil has not brought freedom to the human race, but bondage.

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