Article July 1, 1933 Issue

Your issue of September 17 contains another article by...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Islington and Holloway Press

Your issue of September 17 contains another article by a clergyman on what he imagines Christian Science to be. His statements show very clearly, however, that he has no understanding of the subject.

Has the clergyman contemplated the words: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever"?

The world referred to must mean the material sense of the world. Again, in Revelation St. John tells us that he saw "a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." This is clear indication that the first heaven and first earth were the concepts of the carnal mind, and not divine creations. Since God is infinite Spirit, His point of view must be spiritual; but our critic seems to believe that God feels physical pain. He does not explain, however, by what means infinite Spirit could express such discord. He seems unable to draw the dividing line between the real and unreal; the spiritual and material; the eternal and temporal; and the immortal and mortal.