Article November 30, 1929 Issue

Christian Scientists have never considered that spiritual...

Cecil E. Benjamin, Committee on Publication for Cape Province, South Africa,—Cape Town

Gardens Messenger

Christian Scientists have never considered that spiritual help is the prerogative or monopoly of the Christian Science movement. On the contrary, they look forward to the day when the healing of disease, as well as of sin, will be recognized as an essential of Christianity, and when this work will be done in all Christian churches.

The writer of the article confuses Christian Science with mental suggestion. These are opposites, for Christian Science practice relies upon the Mind of Christ as the only healer, while suggestion is of the so-called human mind, that is, the carnal mind, which Paul defined as "enmity against God."

The article asserts that Christian Science is a moral peril because it denies the reality of evil. If this were true, then the same charge would also be well founded against Christ Jesus, for he said that "the devil [evil] . . . abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him." In order, however, that there may be no misunderstanding on this point, we shall quote what Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science (p. 497): "We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts."

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