Article December 7, 1929 Issue

The report of a sermon by a traveling evangelist, printed...

Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,—Porterville

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The report of a sermon by a traveling evangelist, printed in your issue of March 20, contains the following statement: "Five thousand people in a Boston church deny that there is such a thing as sin!" Manifestly, this statement is intended to refer to Christian Scientists, and is calculated to misrepresent their religion.

The mathematician recognizes the necessity of correcting an error in computation, but he does not regard error as something intrinsically real. Similarly, the Christian Scientist, while recognizing the necessity of correcting and destroying sin, does not regard it as real in an absolute sense. However, it should be understood that the word "real" is here used in accordance with one of the definitions of this word in Webster's New International Dictionary: "Actual, as distinguished from fictitious or imaginary; also, existing intrinsically or inherently, as distinguished from seeming or apparent."

No religious leader has ever denounced sin more vigorously and conclusively than has Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. On page 327 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy makes one of her typical statements regarding sin and its penalty. She writes: "The way to escape the misery of sin is to cease sinning. There is no other way. Sin is the image of the beast to be effaced by the sweat of agony." Throughout all of her writings Mrs. Eddy makes it convincingly clear that only as sin is honestly and progressively destroyed and forsaken can there be enduring health, happiness, and prosperity.

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