Article June 25, 1932 Issue

The difficulty our critic finds in understanding the teachings...

Miss Alice E. Rose, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,—Brighton

Sussex County Herald

The difficulty our critic finds in understanding the teachings of Christian Science arises from failure to see the distinction made by Mrs. Eddy between the real and the unreal—between spiritual man and sinful mortals.

Christian Science acknowledges that, to material sense, sin, sickness, and death seem very real. The mission of Jesus was to redeem mankind from the bondage of the material senses by revealing the Christ, with God-given dominion over sin, sickness, and death. Had Jesus believed man lived in matter, he could never have come forth from the tomb with his body unchanged, after the experience of the cross. He proved that man has no existence apart from God. His disciples did not understand his declaration, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up," until his resurrection awakened their sense to perceive that the real man never dies because he is never for a moment separated from his divine Principle, God, Life.

Centuries before, three Hebrew men had given a wonderful proof of their understanding of spiritual man by coming out of the fiery furnace without even the smell of smoke on them, thereby enabling the heathen king to gain a glimpse of the eternal "Son of God." In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 520): "Human language can repeat only an infinitesimal part of what exists. The absolute ideal, man, is no more seen nor comprehended by mortals, than is his infinite Principle, Love."

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