Article December 6, 1930 Issue

In reply to "Corlic" writing in your issue of March 14,...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—Scotland

Greenock Telegraph

In reply to "Corlic" writing in your issue of March 14, criticizing a lecture on Christian Science, let me say that God, being infinite, incorporeal Spirit, sees man as His image and likeness, spiritual and not material. Like produces like. Christian Science says with Isaiah, "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?"

Our critic evidently does not agree with the definition of substance in Hebrews, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Jesus had a correct sense of substance when he supplied the multitudes with food in the wilderness and told Peter to get the money in a fish's mouth. With the aid of microscopes and telescopes we may see matter near and far, but these certainly do not reveal true substance. The simple fact that two and two makes four is substantial, but an examination of the chalk marks on a blackboard symbolically representing this idea will not reveal the substance of it. Christian Science teaches that "substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468).