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In objecting to Christian Science and the fact that Mrs. Eddy is the Discoverer and Founder of this religion, a contributor to your paper states that "Mrs. Eddy discovered no truth not known to and practiced by Christ [Jesus] and the apostles." He further says that "Christian Science boldly denies the reality of sin and evil, and that man is lost," and for this reason he does not believe this religion is "the gospel of salvation from sin." Neither Mrs. Eddy nor any of her followers have claimed that she discovered a truth not known to Christ Jesus. They claim that much of the spiritual truth known to Christ Jesus, and demonstrated by him in healing the sick, cleansing the sinful, and raising the dead, became lost to mortals about three hundred years after the resurrection, and remained to be rediscovered by Mrs. Eddy by direct revelation from God. One could properly argue that our critic's language is in virtual agreement with the position of Christian Scientists on the point involved. However, Christian Scientists do not rely on argument alone, but rather on those works of which the Master said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."
In strict accord with the Bible, Christian Science teaches that sin and evil were not created by God; hence, are devoid of reality and power. Logically, if God, good, alone is real and has power, then evil, the opposite of good, is unreal and powerless. Christian Scientists understand sin and evil to be but the false beliefs of mortals, whereby they hope to benefit by that which is unlike God. For instance, the dishonest individual labors under the delusion that he can benefit by dishonesty; but the honest individual knows the error of such illusion, and realizes that none can obtain such erroneous beliefs from a wholly good God. In addition to revealing to the world the truth regarding God and man, Mrs. Eddy also rendered the very important service of making known the truth about the errors by which mortals are deceived; and any sincere seeker may readily satisfy himself on the point by honestly subjecting his thinking to the rule she gives for distinguishing between good and evil, and for the overcoming of evil with good. The Bible tells us that man was made in the image and likeness of God; that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good;" and that God's work was finished. Paul has written, "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God." From this basis Christian Science contends that the real man is not lost, but that the thoughts and lives of mortals must become spiritualized in order to express their own real spiritual identities. Mrs. Eddy's life and works have definitely disposed of all questions regarding her fitness for religious leadership.
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February 18, 1928 issue
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The Next Step
WILLIAM R. RATHVON
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"Seeketh not her own"
MYRTLE TIMMONS SUTHERLAND
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Problems
EARL A. RUSSELL
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Casting out the Old for the New
LYDIA A. N. ROLAND
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Adjustment
JOHN S. ALQUIST
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Impersonal Apostles
IRENE LOUISE OPPENHEIM
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Peter
LORNA BURROWS
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In a recent issue of your paper, under the heading of...
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
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In objecting to Christian Science and the fact that Mrs. Eddy...
Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
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During the course of a lecture delivered in Woolsey Hall...
Frank J. Linsley, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,
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In a recent issue there appeared a kindly reference to...
George C. Palmer. Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
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I have read with much interest the letters of "Truth Seeker"...
Miss Kathleen O'Connor, Committee on Publication for Somersetshire, England,
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Letters from the Field
The Committee for the Promotion Of Christian Science
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Faith and Healing
Albert F. Gilmore
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Truth Heals
Ella W. Hoag
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"Hear these imperative commands"
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Helen Sondheim, William Walmsley
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We first learned of Christian Science, while living in...
Reuben with contributions from Norah Gingrich
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Christian Science came into my life after all material...
ROSE E. EASTMAN
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I should like to express my gratitude for the blessings...
Martha Constant
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Mere words can never express the deep gratitude I have...
Rhoda Kate Morgan
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Since my childhood I had always been sickly, subject to...
Pierre Cabrolié
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When I was fifteen, Christian Science was brought to...
HAZEL EVELYN RICE
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When I first heard of Christian Science I was a long way...
Albert Keller-Kuhn
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Christian Science has been a great blessing to me
Eleonora Klenke Foerster with contributions from James T. Fields
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Burstein, Leland Stanford, Nicholai