Article September 17, 1927 Issue

In your recent issue there was a report of an address on...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,

Whittier News

In your recent issue there was a report of an address on the text, "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." When the speaker mistakenly classified Christian Science among "man-made coverings" for sin, he showed a misconception of its teachings, since Christian Science uncovers sin, shows it to be error, and casts it out, in perfect harmony with the text quoted. In other words, a Christian Scientist analyzes his own thoughts and seeks to detect therein any false motives or desires. He then takes a square look at such falsities, and sees that they are errors to be destroyed—not condoned. Therefore, his next step is to get rid of the false motive or desire. He follows a procedure quite similar to a student in arithmetic who has hunted for an error in a computation, found it, and recognized it as an error to be cast out. To remove the error, does not this student of arithmetic turn to the truth that he has learned about mathematics? Likewise, the student of Christian Science, confronted by a false motive or desire, turns to the truth he has learned about God, divine Love, and finds that since God is good and man is His image and likeness, the real man is an image or expression of good, not of evil. Therefore, reasoning logically concerning good and evil, he concludes that the false motives and desires are no part of his real selfhood, and have no rightful place in his experience. In this way, through consecrated effort, he denies and overcomes his sins, one after another. In her book entitled "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 15): "The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins with moments, and goes on with years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoption of good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration, heaven-born hope, and spiritual love."

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