Article April 19, 1930 Issue

Your issue of January 13, reporting (under the heading...

William G. Westle, Committee on Publication for Warwickshire, England,—Coventry

Midland Daily Telegraph

Your issue of January 13, reporting (under the heading "Do Miracles Happen To-Day?") an address given at West Orchard Congregational Church on the previous evening, quotes the speaker as having incorporated in his address the remark that "Christian Science ... denied the existence of disease and of moral evil, and declared them to be only illusions of the mind."

It would have been well had our critic been able to amplify this by pointing out that the reason the teachings and practice of Christian Science deny reality to both "disease" and "moral evil," declaring the false belief in either or both to be but an illusion of so-called mortal mind, is a simple one, namely, that for disease and moral evil to be real they would need to emanate from God, divine Mind; that they would therefore be immortal, eternal; and that, as a consequence, they would be indestructible. If such evils were of divine origin, Christ Jesus would not have cast them out and healed the multitudes, as he did; for in so doing he would have been overthrowing what God had purposed. Added to this, he would have made God out to be the author of a creation both good and evil; and these are opposites.

The Christian Scientist knows, as Jesus knew, that sin and disease are not provided for in the divine plan, and he earnestly utilizes the same spiritual law for their overthrow and destruction that Christ Jesus so successfully relied upon. It was to this spiritual law the Master was alluding when he uttered his well-known saying, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also."

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