Article July 1, 1933 Issue

In your issue of December 23 a correspondent takes...

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

News-Sentinel

In your issue of December 23 a correspondent takes issue with your editorial of the 17th, entitled "Why Is It?" and incidentally mentions Christian Science in a way that indicates a prejudice which might be misleading to your readers. I am therefore asking space for a reply.

By implication your correspondent indicates that the world-wide depression can be corrected only by resorting to something much more practical than Christian Science, which he seems to regard as a sort of make-believe, designed to make one oblivious of bad conditions. He condemns faith, and offers logic or sound reason as the method by which sound conclusions are reached.

But in order to reason at all, there must be a premise which the reasoner has faith in, that is, accepts without reservation. The Christian Scientist has faith in God, in Mind, as the All-in-all, and he understands God to be good—the only good, as Jesus declared. From this absolute premise the Christian Scientist reasons logically to the conclusion that evil and discord are unreal. As St. Paul says: "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Asked to define Christian Science, its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, replied that it is "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony" (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1).

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