Article December 27, 1930 Issue

In your report of a sermon preached last Sunday, at St. James', Brighton,...

Miss Alice E. Rose, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,—Brighton, England

Sussex Daily News

In your report of a sermon preached last Sunday, at St. James', Brighton, while speaking kindly of Christian Science, a clergyman gave the impression that it is a very easy-going religion because it does not teach that pain is God's "minister" to bring people to Him. I shall be grateful, therefore, if you will allow the following to be published in your paper.

In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read (p. 324): "Be watchful, sober, and vigilant. The way is straight and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God is the only Life. It is a warfare with the flesh, in which we must conquer sin, sickness, and death, either here or hereafter,—certainly before we can reach the goal of Spirit, or life in God."

Mrs. Eddy perceived, while of a bed of sickness, that Jesus' healings were not miraculous, but the result of his understanding of divine law, and she arose healed. For three years she studied the Bible in order to know the Science of being, and then gave to the world her revelation, which is freeing mankind from all the ills that flesh is heir to. Christian Science teaches that there is no sin, sickness, or death in the divine Mind, and agrees with the prophet Habakkuk that God is too pure to behold iniquity. Hence, that which is nonexistent to God cannot be used by Him as an instrument, or minister, to bring people nearer to Himself. Through understanding that God's spiritual laws are all-powerful, freedom from disease and discord of every kind is obtained, and men are brought into communion with Him who "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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