Article January 9, 1932 Issue

In your issue of May 28 a clergyman, commenting on...

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

Bicknell Daily News

In your issue of May 28 a clergyman, commenting on "Jesus in Gethsemane," took occasion to refer to Christian Science. For the benefit of your readers, I am asking space for a reply.

Christian Science is based entirely upon the Bible, and confirms the Scriptural statements that God is of too pure eyes to behold (know) evil, and cannot "look on iniquity"; and "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." This is not to say, however, that Christian Science ignores evil; on the coutrary, in obedience to Paul's command, Christian Scientists seek to "be not overcome of evil," but to "overcome evil with good."

If God wills sickness and suffering, Christ Jesus, who did always only the will of his Father, would not have healed the sick and commanded his followers to do likewise. Moreover, the Scriptures show that Jesus healed both sickness and sin by the same metaphysical process, and Christian Science so declares. (See Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 210.) "Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?" Both sickness and sin were destroyed by the power of God, which neither could withstand.

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