Article September 10, 1927 Issue

An item appearing in your recent issue, entitled "Rev....

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

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An item appearing in your recent issue, entitled "Rev. Fendrich Preaches on Sin," has just been brought to my attention. This preacher is mistaken in his view of Christian Science when he refers to sin as "the Christian Science lie," and also when he says that he cannot believe "as the Christian Scientists do, that God is unable to look upon iniquity, and that all that is sinful cannot be." By way of correcting the preacher's misconception, please permit me to state that Christian Science is no lie, but is the truth that Jesus promised would make men free, free from both sin and sickness. The Scripture says plainly of God that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and cannot "look on iniquity." If this preacher had the correct concept of God, which Christian Science teaches, he would see it to be perfectly logical that God, who is Spirit and has created all, could not be cognizant of the suppositional opposite of Himself, namely, matter or evil. In no wise can, nor do, Christian Scientists ignore sin. They are using their utmost endeavors to overcome sin in themselves and others, and are thereby proving their dominion over the belief of evil. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 339), "Only those, who repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the unreality of evil."

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