Article July 25, 1931 Issue

In an article entitled "Why Unemployment and Hard Times?"...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,—Los Angeles

Open Formula

In an article entitled "Why Unemployment and Hard Times?" in your issue of November 8, "Veritas" referred briefly to Christian Science, but the comment was misleading because it implied mistakenly that Christian Scientists ignore industrial depressions. Please let me state that Christian Scientists deal with unemployment and hard times, as well as with pecuniary difficulties, through the same spiritual method they utilize to heal disease; but in neither case do they ignore the discordant condition.

Even though discord seems real and serious to material sense, Christian Science proclaims the nothingness of evil. Is not this conclusion logically drawn from the Bible teaching that God made all and made it "very good"? And is not evil proved unreal when it is annihilated?

Distressing conditions usually come from fear, and when fear is conquered through spiritual understanding the distress is alleviated or destroyed. Job saw the contagious nature of fear when he said, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me." However, Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, knew the truth of John's statement, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear;" and from the depth of his spiritual understanding, Jesus repudiated fear by his commands: "Fear not;" "Be of good cheer;" and, "Be not afraid." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 447), "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them;" and (p. 410), "The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love."

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