Article January 4, 1930 Issue

With reference to the views of a writer on Christian Science,...

Count Sigge Cronstedt, Committee on Publication for Sweden,—Karlstad (translation)

Nya Wermlands-Tidningen

With reference to the views of a writer on Christian Science, as given in your esteemed paper of the 11th inst., kindly permit me to make the following statement.

The teaching of Christian Science is most certainly Christian, because it is based on the words and works of Christ Jesus. This teaching shows the necessity and the urgent need of the world's salvation from all evil, from sin as well as sickness, and from the effect of these, death; and it holds that there is no other salvation than through Christ, Truth.

Christian Science teaches that the Soul or Principle of the whole universe, the creator thereof, is none other than God Himself. Can God be less than perfect? God, who is altogether good, cannot create anything which is not eternal, unchangeable, perfect. Evil, from which the world rightly wishes to be delivered and from which it finally will be saved, is therefore a false concept, a concept of something which seems to be but really does not exist. By an understanding of the truth about evil, not by "thinking it away," far less by neglecting it, can release be attained. Healing from the belief of evil of whatever kind does not therefore come through "suggestion," but through understanding the reality and the perfection of God and His unchangeable creation, and by applying this understanding to the error which is in need of healing.

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