Article May 23, 1931 Issue

A letter commenting on the report in the Queensland Times...

Miss Edith L. Thomson, committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,—Ipswich

Queensland Times

A letter commenting on the report in the Queensland Times of a lecture on Christian Science, recently delivered in Ipswich by a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, has been brought to my notice.

Christian Scientists will agree with your correspondent that they are not alone in recognizing the world's need of a religion that will help, succor, and heal—a religion that will point the way to the bliss of a closer relationship with God; and also that a diligent and unbiased study of God's Word will reveal the attributes of God, and make available to-day the saying of Jesus, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The point of departure from all other methods of religious thinking is that Christian Science differentiates absolutely and positively between what is good and true because God made it, and what is not good and not true because God did not make it.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 367), we read: "Because Truth is infinite, error should be known as nothing;" and on the next page, "The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal." The healing of the sick is accomplished through the realization of this fact in Christian Science. Sickness and sin are no part of God's good creation, no part of His good plan for man. To admit that sickness and sin are of God is to try to say that God is both good and evil; whereas the Scriptures teach that God is good, and is without variableness or shadow of turning. In Christian Science we learn that there is one God or Principle. "God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence" (Science and Health, p. 466). Turning to the divine Principle, God, for the right answer to our problems, we truly touch the hem of His garment and rejoice in the fulfillment of Christ Jesus' promise, "And I will give you rest."

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