Article June 4, 1927 Issue

A recent issue of your paper contains a report of a sermon...

W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,—Gainesville

Daily Sun

A recent issue of your paper contains a report of a sermon delivered in your city by a minister against Christian Science. The minister says that Christian Science takes the name of Christ. In this the minister is correct. The knowledge of the Christ, Truth, permeates every page of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Further, Christian Science is in strict accord with the teaching and practice of the Master. A more correct name could not have been chosen by Mrs. Eddy. It was named "Christian" because it is compassionate and Christlike in its ministrations. It was named "Science" because it is scientifically understandable and demonstrable. Hence it is exactly what its name indicates—scientific, demonstrable Christianity. One can prove for himself by demonstration the truth of its teachings and its availability to meet humanity's need, here and now, just as Christ Jesus said that an understanding of his teachings could and would do. Professor Fiske, formerly a lecturer on philosophy in Harvard University, is authority for the following: "All the qualities of matter are what the mind makes them, and have no existence as such apart from the mind—apart from consciousness there are no such things as color, form, position, or hardness, and there is no such thing as matter." According to Webster, "The nature of matter is unknown, and the physicist can only describe certain of its properties and speculate on its structure." When physics treats matter in this manner, Christian metaphysics may be pardoned for insisting that matter is simply a mistaken concept. Christ Jesus taught that God is Spirit. Christian Science teaches that God's creation must be, and is, like Himself, spiritual. As one grasps this great truth, he ceases believing in matter, and learns that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that man lives, moves, and has his being in God (Spirit), as Paul declares. The Bible tells us that in the beginning God created all, and that He pronounced His creation "good." John says that "without him [God] was not any thing made that was made." Christian Science, therefore, teaches that sin, sickness, and death are not of God, hence have no reality in fact. If sin, disease, and death were real there would be no hope of ever overcoming or destroying them.

In declaring that man is never sick, Christian Science refers to the perfect man, God's own image and likeness, of whom Christ Jesus was the true model. On pages 472 and 473 of the Christian Science textbook, Mrs. Eddy says: "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. We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming to be real and identical."

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