Article September 27, 1930 Issue

In a contribution in your issue of March 30, a clergyman...

Fred Yould, Acting Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,

Brunswick News

In a contribution in your issue of March 30, a clergyman made the misleading statement, "Christian Science teaches 'sin is nothing,' only an error of mind;" and he inferred that its adherents either ignore or condone evil. As a correction this brief reply is submitted for the benefit of your readers and in fairness to Christian Science. It will state authentically something of what this religion really teaches about sin, and how its adherents are taught and expected to combat evil in its various forms.

The fundamental difference between the theology expounded by the clergyman and the theology of Christian Science regarding the nature of God apparently accounts for his misunderstanding of the teachings of Christian Science. God, the Bible teaches, is "a God at hand." God, therefore, is not a corporeal being. He is ever present, omnipotent Spirit or Mind. This incorporeal, ever present Spirit, this ever operative divine Principle called God, good, naturally renders evil void as a real entity. The supremacy of God nullifies evil, save as a false claim to presence and power.

Though Christian Science rightly interprets the Bible teachings relating to the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, thereby rendering baseless the claim that evil affords real pleasure or has power, true Christian Scientists do not condone evil or indulge in evil, then call evil nothing.

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