Article August 8, 1931 Issue

I have read with interest your reports of the meetings at...

Mrs. Harriet J. Jewson, Committee on Publication for Norfolk, England,—Norwich

Eastern Daily Press

I have read with interest your reports of the meetings at Church House, Westminster, of the Convocation of Canterbury. In your issue of January 23 a clergyman is reported as having made the following statement: "It does not matter what the faith of a person is for mental healing. I do not suppose there is any more fantastic theory than that on which Christian Science is founded—the theory that matter and body do not exist, and that therefore pain cannot exist, and yet, I suppose, there has not been any faith healing which has been so successful."

May I point out that good results cannot come from anything that is based on false or fantastic theories, for "a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." Christian Science is based solely and squarely upon the teaching of the Bible, especially that of Christ Jesus, who said, "The flesh profiteth nothing." It teaches the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of God; that "without him was not any thing made that was made;" and that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." These premises being accepted, the logical conclusion is that sick, sinning, mortal man, being unlike good, was not made by God and is not real, but is the counterfeit of the real spiritual creation.

The view of the unreality of matter is to-day being accepted by many eminent thinkers. In 1904, in his presidential address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the late Earl Balfour said that "matter is not merely explained, but explained away." Professor J. S. Haldane, Fellow of New College, Oxford, has said: "The world, as represented in the language of physical science, can only be, as I have tried to show, a world of unreal abstractions. If, however, we mistake it for reality itself, we are only following a shadow."

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