Article December 24, 1932 Issue

May I have a little space in your "Letter Box" to correct...

Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Scottsbluff

Star-Herald

May I have a little space in your "Letter Box" to correct a misconception of Christian Science given a few days ago in this same department by a contributor?

In attempting to show the inconsistency of Christian Science from the standpoint of physical evidence, the contributor fell into the same error many others have fallen into when they have tried to show what Christian Scientists mean by the word "real." Christian Scientists quite agree that to the physical senses pain, hunger, sickness, heat, and cold seem very real. But that does not make them real in the higher and correct meaning of that term. To the Christian Scientist, that only is real which is "eternal and incapable of discord and decay" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468). One may believe himself to be sick, and his physical senses may testify vigorously to that belief, but if sickness is not one of the things God made it has nothing to do with the real man, the man whom God made in His image and likeness and gave dominion over all, the man who is spiritual and not material.

The Christian Scientist does not attempt to argue himself into a belief that his inharmonious body is not sick. He turns away from the contemplation of it to see himself as God's perfect child, who by his very nature and birthright cannot be sick or inharmonious. If sickness and the other forms of inharmony the critic appeared to think real were indeed real, then it would be futile for the Christian Scientist, or anyone else, to attempt to overcome them; but because the Christian Scientist knows them to be no part of his true spiritual self he can and does deliver himself from their inharmonious effects.

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