Article March 7, 1931 Issue

It would appear from the letter which was published in...

Philip H. Simpson, Committee on Publication for Cape Province, South Africa

Port Elizabeth Advertiser

It would appear from the letter which was published in your issue of the 12th of March that the writer found the recent lecture on Christian Science difficult to understand.

As your correspondent's quotations are not correctly given, and are consequently misleading, I will restate them. They are taken from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and are as follows: "Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous" (p. 277); and, "Matter is the primitive belief of mortal mind, because this so-called mind has no cognizance of Spirit" (p. 292).

To-day physical scientists, after many years of research, are coming to the same conclusion that Mrs. Eddy logically deduced over sixty years ago from the premise that because God is Spirit and God is All, matter is unreal. Such a revolutionary statement was, and is even to-day, regarded by many people as an absurdity. Its importance and far-reaching effects, in its relation to religion and science, are, however, gradually becoming more and more apparent; so much so, that many cherished theories are being readjusted.

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