Article February 28, 1931 Issue

Under the heading "Hits and Misses" in the issue of your...

Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,

Wausau Daily Record-Herald

Under the heading "Hits and Misses" in the issue of your paper of November 24, is a jocular reference to a man who "only thinks he is sick," and then "thinks he's dead." These words would probably be taken by your readers as referring to the teaching of Christian Science as to the unreality of disease and death. Inasmuch as such a statement as this misrepresents the teaching of Christian Science, if it is left unexplained, I will ask you kindly to allow space in your columns for this letter of explanation and correction.

The writer of the words to which I have referred evidently assumes that Christian Science teaches that men only think they are ill or dead. It is true that Christian Science teaches the unreality of disease and death, and that all human experience, including disease and death, is mental. In order, however, to comprehend this teaching regarding the unreality of disease and death, it must be understood that in Christian Science the mortal, material man is not the real man. The real man is wholly spiritual, made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit, as stated in the first chapter of Genesis. This real man is immortal; he cannot die or be ill because God is his Life, and his God-bestowed consciousness of Life contains no destructive element.

Christian Science does not deny that sin, disease, and death are a part of the experience of mortal, material man, so called, but it does deny that these errors occur in the experience of the real spiritual man, made in the image and likeness of God; and it is from this standpoint that the reality of disease and death is denied in Christian Science.

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