Article May 13, 1933 Issue

The preacher who delivered the sermon at the graduation...

Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,—Benton Harbor

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The preacher who delivered the sermon at the graduation exercises in the Benton Harbor High School last Sunday, as reported in your issue of June 13, took occasion to criticize the teachings of Christian Science, and to apply some hard names to those who profess those teachings. It is strange that such sentiments were spoken in an American public school, in which distinctions of creed are not countenanced.

Why anyone should be denounced as "a fool or a rascal" who is sincerely endeavoring to overcome fear, whether it be fear of sin or sickness, disease or death, is, to say the least, not easy to understand. To encounter the danger and difficulties of the present economic situation without fear calls for courage of a high order, deserving to be commended and encouraged. It takes more than "sentimental froth" to sustain such courage, which to endure can be based only on faith in the triumph of good. To maintain this attitude toward seeming adversity is what Christian Scientists are striving to do; and Christian Science teaches them that it can be done. There is no better antidote for panic or depression than faith in God.

The great apostle who declared, "Perfect love casteth out fear," could not have been thinking of sin, sickness, or death as ultimate realities. The physical senses admittedly vouch for discordant conditions, but such transient evidence can be corrected by that union with God which the preacher advocates. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 96 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace." Insisting on the genuineness and reality of evil has never healed evil, and it never will; but evil is nullified by means of applied understanding of the sole reality of God and His good creation.

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