I notice in your issue of 24th ultimo a letter in which...

John H. O'Loughlin, former Committee on Publication for Northumberland, England,

Hexham Courant

From Letters, Substantially as Published

I notice in your issue of 24th ultimo a letter in which it is implied that there is an important point in Christian Science teaching which is never explained by spokesmen of the Christian Science church. The point is substantially this: How has a sense of evil arisen, and who is responsible for it if, as Christian Science teaches, God is infinite good?

Christian Science, being based on the Bible, teaches that God is the only cause and creator, and "without him was not any thing made that was made." Hence, by fair logic, evil was never made. But, argues the carnal mind (which, the Bible states, is "enmity against God"), evil is a fact and must have a creator. Christian Science teaches that evil is a false belief which seems real only to a false consciousness, and that it can be proved unreal by having in us the true consciousness, that is, the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."

Christian Scientists throughout the civilized world are proving with ever increasing success that when the knowledge that God is infinite good and knows no evil is applied to life's problems, both the false belief and the false consciousness of evil (being one) depart into their native nothingness, and the problem is solved. Christ Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus the Christian Science teaching as to the allness of God and the nothingness of evil can be proved.

Our critic should practice the foregoing instead of trying to find an "originator" and "upholder" for nothingness. His attempt to find them leads him to speak of spiritual man as evolving a material concept, that is, fallen man. It leads him also to speak of a reincarnated man, both of which are incompatible with Christian Science teaching.

Those who desire to study the subject can obtain the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," at any Christian Science Reading Room, and from most public libraries.

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