Article August 4, 1928 Issue

May I be permitted to correct certain misstatements regarding...

Thomas A. Wyles, Committee on Publication for South Australia,—Adelaide

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May I be permitted to correct certain misstatements regarding Christian Science made in the moderator's address as reported in a recent issue of the Advertiser. The statement is there made that the Christian Science answer to the question, "What must I do to be saved?" is, "There is nothing to be saved from." Christian Science makes no such statement, but the moderator's conclusion is based on the fact that he has failed to realize the distinction between reality, God and His creation, and the temporal sense of things as we see it "through a glass, darkly." There is nothing more real to the sufferer than sickness, but that does not alter the fact that when it ceases to be a reality to him he finds himself better. Jesus healed by removing the belief that sickness and sin had power or were from God, although appearing real to the human mind. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (Pref., p. xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation. Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural." This is the Christian Science method of salvation—conquest of sin and sickness here and now through Christ. The moderator's objection to the success of Mrs. Eddy as an authoress and to Christian Scientists as business-men is amusing. What else could one expect from a practical religion? Mrs. Eddy was, however, an extremely simple-living, brave, and loving woman, and she left her fortune for the furtherance of Christianity. The moderator's reference to Mrs. Eddy's charge for tuition is misleading; her income at that time was meager, and, even so, she privately admitted the greater percentage of her students without fee. I am sorry my genial friend so far forgot himself as to criticize his fellow-man's religion. Might I remind him that Jesus' test of religion was not scholarly attainments and worldly wisdom, but the simple, childlike faith in the infinite love and power of God.

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing over it he is superior. Bacon

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