Article August 20, 1932 Issue

Those of your readers who have followed this correspondence...

Alfred Johnson, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Bridlington Chronicle

Those of your readers who have followed this correspondence will know that the categorical questions your correspondent asks have been specifically answered during the correspondence, except, perhaps, his last question: "Does Christian Science teach there is no sin, sickness, and death—they are illusions?"

On this subject of the reality or unreality of sin, sickness, and death, a subject so clearly illumined in the life and teaching of Jesus and of great importance to all Christians, the teaching of Christian Science is very definite. It teaches the allness of God, and denies reality and power to anything apart from Him. It declares that only to be real and true which is immortal, which is created and sustained by God, and affirms all that is unlike God to be unreal and temporal. If sin, sickness, and death are real, they must proceed from God; yet they are not amongst the things mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis, where it says that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good," and that He created man in His own likeness. These evils have only a fictitious existence in the so-called minds of mortals; and Christ Jesus, the great Teacher, by consistently dissipating them, proved them to be unreal, and not a component part of man's being.

Christian Science admits that to the sick nothing may seem so real as sickness, and the Christian Scientist's attitude towards the sufferer is wholly Christian; it is tender and compassionate. He prayerfully and humbly declares man's relationship to God, thus exalting the sufferer until he feels the presence and power of God which heals all belief in pain and suffering.

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