In a sermon printed in the December 28 issue of your...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Rock Rapids

Lyon County Leader

In a sermon printed in the December 28 issue of your paper the minister was reported as saying, when speaking of cures for sin, that "the Christian Scientist tells us, 'Deny sin and it disappears.'" This statement, so far as it goes, correctly presents the attitude of Christian Scientists toward sin, but being only a partial statement of the truth it might leave with your readers the impression that the Christian Scientist merely ignores sin, whereas he seeks its destruction by denying its verity. I should therefore appreciate space to amplify the subject.

First, let me say that Christian Science sets forth in unmistakable terms the widely accepted fact of God's omnipotence, and clearly shows that if belief in some power apart from God is entertained the sense of His allness is at once lost and one is left without faith in the supreme, infinite Deity in whom to find refuge from evil. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 249), "Either there is no omnipotence, or omnipotence is the only power." On that thoroughly logical statement all argument for the potency of evil must stand or fall.

Although the Christian Scientist denies that sin has actual existence or power, he is still aware of the persistency of evil in pressing its claim of being quite as real and powerful as God, good, because of innumerable manifestations of discord in human experience. But to reject that false claim is to do only what James admonished when in his epistle he said, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

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