Article June 6, 1931 Issue

Christian Science is not based upon the "fantastic theory"...

Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,—Leeds

Yorkshire Evening News

Christian Science is not based upon the "fantastic theory" of the "nonexistence of matter and the body," as inferred by the clergyman speaking at the Convocation of Canterbury, and reported in your issue of recent date; but we conclude that, since God, the creator, is Spirit, creation must be spiritual, and that if man is made in the image and likeness of God, he is spiritual, and not physical.

Christian Science is based upon the Bible, especially the words and works of our great Master, Christ Jesus, whose whole career is so utterly inexplicable on a material basis. He showed us that it is the Christian's privilege to look not at things which are seen, and are temporal, but at the things which are not seen, and are eternal. This divine ideal—the Christ—is so powerful that the Apostle Paul declares that it will "change our vile body." that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body." Christian Science healing is not "faith healing" in the meaning accepted in the discussion under review, but the result of an understanding and acknowledgment of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of God. Through this realization we find with us the presence of the Christ, at whose touch our perplexities, physical, mental, and spiritual, are resolved and we are healed.

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