Article January 13, 1934 Issue

In your issue of the seventh of August, you report a...

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

Franklin Star

In your issue of the seventh of August, you report a sermon by a clergyman who apparently mentioned Christian Science in a connection that calls for some correction. From this report it appears that the minister classified Christian Science as a "cult," and that he objected to it as an "easy religion," and as being wholly individualistic.

Christian Science is not a cult, defined in a dictionary as "a system of rites employed in worship." It is the orderly and logical statement of the truth about God and man, and of the divine laws whereby mankind is healed of ignorance, fear, and sin, through the understanding of man's present perfection as God's image and likeness.

To gain this understanding of God and man and to reflect it in dominion over evil and matter, as Jesus reflected it, calls for work of the most exacting sort. Every moment must be devoted to repelling evil suggestions, such as sickness, hate, poverty, false appetite, and the like, and to magnifying in consciousness that which is Godlike and real, such as health, love, and plenty. This is the way of the cross; and if it is an easy way, it is easy only because it is the way of the Master, whose yoke was easy and whose burden was light.

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