Article May 13, 1933 Issue

In the "Public Opinion" column of your paper, issue of...

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

Huntington News

In the "Public Opinion" column of your paper, issue of December 16, appears an article in which a listener to a Christian Science lecture takes issue with the lecturer by questioning the soundness of his logic, particularly his assertion that "like produces like." It is in a spirit of helpfulness (for Christian Science is not controversial) that I am asking for space for a reply.

After quoting the lecturer's premise that "like produces like," your correspondent finds a flaw which he states is not in the wording of the statement, but in the assumption that God's creation is like the creator. "It is my considered opinion," continues the writer, "that God does not now and never did operate through the principle of like producing like; that not any of His creation partakes of His divine quality."

This "considered opinion," however earnestly held, can hardly take precedence over the Scriptural declaration that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Jesus declared that God alone is good; and Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, repeatedly uses the two words synonymously. It must follow, then, that everything which God made—and He made all, as your correspondent admits—being good, is like Him, that is, "like produces like."

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