Article November 5, 1927 Issue

Will you kindly permit me to correct a statement in your...

George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,—Moose Jaw

Evening Times

Will you kindly permit me to correct a statement in your recent issue. It seems strange that there should be those who feel themselves called to the Christian ministry, who yet persist in deliberately misrepresenting others likewise engaged. As reported in the issue mentioned above are the words, "Mrs. Eddy ... denies the essential divinity of Jesus Christ." The question may be fairly asked, How can any honest seeker come to such a conclusion? Jesus said, "The flesh profiteth nothing." Christian Science insists upon this, as it insists upon every statement made by the Master. He taught, however, that he had an eternal selfhood. Those interested in this question should bear in mind Christ Jesus' statements about his antedating Abraham and his eternal existence after the ascension; then there would be no difficulty regarding his explanation of the Christ. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 8) Mrs. Eddy states, "Again I reiterate this cardinal point: There is but one Christ, and Christ is divine." There need be no confusion on this issue; and there is none to those who wish to discover the facts. On page 26 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life;' 'I and my Father are one.' This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him."

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