Article October 28, 1933 Issue

There appeared in your issue of March 15 an article in...

Richard O. Shimer,—Marion

Leader-Tribune

There appeared in your issue of March 15 an article in which the writer quoted a remark referring to Christian Science as a superstition. While I have no doubt that the article was written with no thought of offending anyone, I am asking space for a few words of correction.

Characteristic of superstition, this quotation goes on to say, is the lack of relation between effect and cause; and when no such relation can be traced, we are advised to suspect a superstition. Now Christian Science declares as one of its major propositions that "all substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 275). Likewise, on page 207 of the same volume we read: "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause." Indeed, study of the subject shows that Christian Science might be called the Science of causation, or the exact knowledge of God, the only cause.

From this basis of divine causation, Christian Science reasons logically to conclusions that are demonstrably true. God, the one and only cause, being good, all effect must be good; and whatever is not good lacks causation, and therefore is unreal. It was on this basis of true reasoning that Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead; and it is the same Christ-healing which is exemplified in Christian Science practice today.