Article June 28, 1930 Issue

In a comparatively recent issue of the Chronicle appeared...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—Houston

Chronicle

In a comparatively recent issue of the Chronicle appeared a report of a sermon captioned, "Rector Talks on Reality of Disease." While not mentioned by name in your report, it is evident that the rector took issue with Christian Science, the unreality of disease, or evil, being a distinctive and fundamental teaching thereof.

Our clerical critic has utterly failed to comprehend this all-important point in Christian Science, his sense of reality differing radically. Reality, in Christian Science, denotes indestructibility, and applies only to Truth (God), and to whatever has Truth as its origin and support. Hence disease, being destructible, is unreal, in a scientific analysis. Demonstrably so!

Disease and pain, it is true, appear to be real to the one who entertains a sense of their reality; and Christian Scientists do not deny that, in human experience, disease often seems that very "cold and cruel fact" our opponent terms it. However, entertaining a sense of the reality of error does not prove the reality thereof; and the unreliability of sense-testimony is too well known to require explication or substantiation here.

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