Article February 15, 1930 Issue

Inasmuch as your esteemed paper of the 9th inst. presents...

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

Dala Tidningen

Inasmuch as your esteemed paper of the 9th inst. presents some statements regarding the teachings of Christian Science which might lead to misunderstanding of what is really taught herein, I respectfully beg to make the following contribution.

If we look around us in the world, how much evil do we see from which humanity certainly needs to be, and also strives to be, saved or delivered! Christian Scientists do not look around and say "Peace, peace; when there is no peace." On the contrary, they are eagerly occupied with the problem of salvation, their own individual salvation; and as they win the same they are in a position to help their fellow-men to gain their salvation also, and thus the whole world's salvation, because the world consists of individuals.

Were there no possibility of approaching perfection here, and by degrees attaining it, then, strictly speaking, all striving for improvement would be in vain. Christian Science maintains that only absolute good can be eternal; hence, that evil cannot be real or lasting. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 525): "Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make,—hence its unreality." The first step to salvation is acknowledgment of sin, then repentance; afterwards comes reformation, which shows that repentance is sincere. Certainly no one can be saved, or become free from evil, by looking away from it, pretending not to notice it, or by neglecting it. But assuredly, through overcoming evil and having dominion over evil, the less there will be of it until it finally disappears. Thus is evil proved to be unreal.

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