Article December 12, 1931 Issue

In reply to a correspondent writing in your issue of...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—England

Richmond Herald

In reply to a correspondent writing in your issue of November 29, let me say that to a Christian Scientist "reality" means that which "is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 335). It was in this sense that the lecturer used the word to which our critic has taken so much objection.

There is not the slightest doubt that the discords of human life are produced by incorrect thinking. The erroneous qualities which make for disasters, individual and national, are dishonesty, fear, greed, avarice, hatred, and malice, and I am sure our critic cannot say that these are not being manifested in human affairs to-day. They arise from lack of the knowledge of God and His laws; and when mankind returns to God, and desires to obey His laws, these conditions will be eliminated.

The study of Christian Science is enabling humanity to understand better how to conform to the laws of God. Mrs. Eddy has laid down in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, six tenets, to which all Christian Scientists subscribe. The last of these reads as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure" (p. 497).

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