Article October 6, 1934 Issue

Your issue of May 3 contains a letter commenting on...

Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia.—Richmond

Times-Dispatch

Your issue of May 3 contains a letter commenting on the teachings of Christian Science, and I shall appreciate your publishing this reply.

Among the synonyms for God to be found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, are Principle and Soul, and Mrs. Eddy also refers to God as infinite Person. Principle is used to bring out the idea of God as the source or origin and the lawmaker of the universe, while the term "infinite Person" conveys some idea of the allness, the completeness of the divine nature.

As to the teaching of Christian Science that heaven is a "divine state of Mind" (Science and Health, p. 291) and not a place, we have the words of Christ Jesus as authority for this. When his disciples inquired concerning the kingdom of God—a term used interchangeably by Bible students with the kingdom of heaven—he replied: "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."

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