Article October 3, 1931 Issue

The statement by a speaker at the Convocation of Canterbury,...

Charles M. Shaw, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Manchester

City News

The statement by a speaker at the Convocation of Canterbury, "I do not suppose there is any more fantastic theory than that on which Christian Science is founded — the theory that matter and the body do not exist, and that therefore pain cannot exist" — is incorrect and misleading.

The teaching of Christian Science is that matter is a false sense or concept of real substance. Christian Science teaches that the source or Principle of the universe is the one infinite Mind or Spirit, God, and that the universe consists of His ideas, infinite in number. These ideas exist in the infinite Mind, hence their substance is Spirit; and to spiritual consciousness they are real, tangible, and harmonious.

But the predominant thought of mankind is material. To mankind's material sense all things seem material and partake of the nature of materiality; that is to say, they are temporal, perishable, imperfect, inharmonious. Hence Christian Science teaches that the phenomenal world of matter, evil, disease, and death is a false sense of the spiritual creation, or, in other words, a subjective state of material sense.

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