Article September 5, 1931 Issue

Your issue of February 20 contains a report of a sermon...

Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,—Baton Rouge

Morning Advocate

Your issue of February 20 contains a report of a sermon by an evangelist on the subject of the raising of Lazarus, in which reference is made to Christian Science as follows: "The Christian Scientists say that Lazarus was never dead, but was merely in a state of coma. Christian Science is neither Christian nor scientific. Their idea makes Christ a party to deception, sham, and fraud."

Kindly permit me to state that Christian Scientists do not say this. It would have been an easy matter for our friend to have quoted what Mrs. Eddy really said on the subject, and if he had done so his hearers would have been correctly informed.

In the Bible account of the raising of Lazarus, and also of the restoration of the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue, Jesus did not differentiate between sleep and death. He knew that the real Lazarus, the man created in the image and likeness of God, was immortal and not subject to so-called death; and by reason of his understanding of this he was able to awaken Lazarus out of the deep sleep of death. Never departing from Biblical authority, Christian Science teaches that there is no life in matter, and that man lives, moves, and has his being in God, as the Scriptures declare.

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