Article January 13, 1934 Issue

In a letter headed "Christian Science," in your last...

Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,

Stroud Journal

In a letter headed "Christian Science," in your last issue, your correspondent speaks of spiritual man as "capable of false belief," and again as "the reflection of God's idea." This is not in accordance with the teachings of Christian Science, which show that man, made in the image and likeness of God, remains perfect. As Christian Scientists carefully study Mrs. Eddy's clear statements on these points in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," they cease to spend their time in striving to find a cause for that which has no origin. Their attitude towards such questions may be expressed in the words of the following quotation from the above-mentioned textbook (pp. 354, 355): "The opponents of divine Science must be charitable, if they would be Christian. If the letter of Christian Science appears inconsistent, they should gain the spiritual meaning of Christian Science, and then the ambiguity will vanish. The charge of inconsistency in Christianly scientific methods of dealing with sin and disease is met by something practical,—namely, the proof of the utility of these methods; and proofs are better than mere verbal arguments or prayers which evince no spiritual power to heal."

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