Article January 5, 1929 Issue

The column by a writer in a recent issue contained the...

Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Madison

Capitol Times

The column by a writer in a recent issue contained the statement that some healers "assure you there is no sickness, no need of healing, no mind at all, nothing but love." Inasmuch as this statement would probably be taken by your readers as referring to the teachings of Christian Science, I would appreciate space in your paper for correction of the mistaken implications contained in it. While Christian Science does deny the reality of disease, it does not deny that disease is a constituent part of human experience, and that all mankind have it to contend with; nor does it deny that disease seems very real to the material senses. Christian Science, however, does deny disease from the purely spiritual standpoint. It declares that because God, good, is infinite Spirit or Mind, His universe, including man, is divinely mental or spiritual, and is wholly good: all that God creates is good. It follows from this that all that is unspiritual, unlike God, good, including matter, evil, disease, and death, is unreal.

Christian Science does not say that because disease is unreal there is "no need of healing," as stated in your article, but, there is a very great need of healing, through the knowing of the truth about God, man, and the universe just referred to, the truth which Christ Jesus referred to when he said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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