Article August 8, 1931 Issue

In your issue of January 5 you print an article in which...

Richard O. Shimer, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Fort Wayne

Journal-Gazette

In your issue of January 5 you print an article in which a writer explains at length his theory of life and the material universe, and in which he incidentally mentions Christian Science. Inasmuch as his reference may have given some of your readers an erroneous impression of Christian Science, I should appreciate space for a short correction.

This writer stated that Christian Scientists imagine they have given up their theological hell, but that they have substituted mortal mind, which, he thinks, is no better. In discussing this subject, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160): "I am asked, 'Is there a hell?' Yes, there is a hell for all who persist in breaking the Golden Rule or in disobeying the commandments of God. . . . Christian Science shows that hidden unpunished sin is this internal fire. . . . The advanced psychist knows that this hell is mental, not material, and that the Christian has no part in it. Only the makers of hell burn in their fire." Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, says, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

Christian Science is the Science of divine Mind, and imagination does not enter into its premises or conclusions. Christian Science opens to the receptive consciousness the storehouse of infinite divine ideas, which in turn bring progress, growth, health, purity, the kingdom of harmony, heaven, here and now. It enables men to use the good they have—to prove their faith, to appreciate its divine nature, and therefore its indestructible substance, "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." It enables them to eliminate the dross and error of mortal mind, which is only the evidence of the false material senses.

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