Article February 1, 1930 Issue

The letter from your correspondent, Elishama, in your...

Miss Florence L. Carrington, Acting Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,—Bridgetown

Barbados Advocate

The letter from your correspondent, Elishama, in your issue of August 24, calls for a reply.

I appreciate his kind and just acknowledgment that "the teachings of Christian Science emphasize divine power and goodness, high standards of moral behavior and social service and philanthropy." He, however, continues, "But when it goes on to deal with disease and suffering it gets quite off the lines of both Christianity and Science, and shows itself quite inadequate to its task—save and except that by urging reliance upon divine help it sometimes does good in special cases."

But it is just here, in dealing with disease and suffering of every kind, that Christian Science keeps on the line of Christianity and Science, for it is only by radical reliance on God's love, and on His righteous laws governing His universe, that mortals experience divine help not only "sometimes" but at all times. From cover to cover the Bible teaches this reliance. Many in the Old Testament proved the truth of this reliance. Christ Jesus proved it yet more fully for us, and enjoined us to do the same. He said he came to do his Father's will, and he healed all manner of discord. God made all—and "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Then, to regard disease and suffering as facts of true being and real is to attribute their presence to God; and they could thus never be destroyed, and it would be wrong to try to do so. Therefore, Christian Science logically states that all inharmony or evil is the absence of good, just as darkness is the absence of light. The wise man said, "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."

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