Article September 22, 1928 Issue

I trust you will allow me space to correct some of the...

Cecil S. Bellairs, Committee on Publication for the Province of Transvaal, South Africa,—Ermelo

Eastern Star

I trust you will allow me space to correct some of the remarks made by a clergyman on the subject of Christian Science reported in your recent issue. Christian Science teaches that man is spiritual because he is the image and likeness of God, Spirit. Christian Science is opposed to the teachings of psychology, or that the human mind heals through the brain; as the clergyman puts it, "An idea in the mind must touch the brain, the brain is the center of the nervous system and this in turn affects the whole body." Then he adds, "On the negative side it is scientifically false to cure evil or disease by denying its existence;" and further, "We cannot tie Christ down to any method." Let us take one statement by Christ Jesus on this question: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." The word "way" literally means method; again and again in the Acts of the Apostles it is used with that meaning. Hence certain believers call themselves Methodists. There is only one correct way or method, that is, the scientific way; in other words, Christian Science—Christianity as taught by Christ Jesus and explained to this age by Mrs. Eddy under the name of Christian Science.

The Master taught us to deny error or evil, whether as flesh or disease. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." He made this statement because Christ or Truth automatically denies, corrects, or casts out error or evil. Most thinking people nowadays recognize that God did not make evil. He "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." It logically follows that if evil is not real, then matter, which is bound up with evil, is also unreal. Hence, the way to heal disease is to know that it is unreal, because God neither made it nor knows it—in other words, to deny its reality. The truths given in the Bible are the same as those explained in Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy. They are not based on psychology or any so-called mental science, but on the great fact of the allness of God, good, and the nothingness of matter or evil. Experience will prove to anyone who cares to try, that it is easier to heal disease by denying that it is true, and knowing the truth about health, than on the assumption that it is something sent by God and therefore partaking of His nature—eternality. The Master taught that the devil "was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him." He made the further promise that if we keep his commandments, we shall know the truth and the truth shall make us free, free, among other things, from disease. If the clergyman will test this system for himself, he will find it "the better way," far better than any attempt to heal through that "lump of pulpy stuff" called the brain.

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