Article August 4, 1934 Issue

A correspondent writing in your issue of December 14...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Sentinel for Wood Green

A correspondent writing in your issue of December 14 is mistaken in supposing that the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is the Christian Scientists' Bible. Christian Scientists use the King James Version of the Bible and study it every day in conjunction with the Christian Science textbook. This textbook unveils the spiritual meaning of the Bible and explains how the prophets, Christ Jesus, his disciples, and the early Christians did their works of healing and regeneration through faith in and the understanding of God and His spiritual laws. There is not one illogical statement in the Christian Science textbook. Every conclusion is based on the premise that God is infinite Spirit, and that the real universe, including man, is His spiritual manifestation.

Christ Jesus walked on the Sea of Galilee, multiplied the loaves and fishes, obtained tribute money from the fish's mouth, and healed all manner of disease. The questions arise: How did he do these things? What knowledge had he which enabled him to perform what are termed miracles? It was his knowledge of God and His spiritual laws which enabled him to do these mighty works, and Christian Scientists today are endeavoring to emulate his works in some measure in proportion as they gain "the mind of Christ." Our Master plainly said that anyone who believed on him, that is, understood his teachings, should do the same works that he did and greater. It is incumbent, therefore, upon all Christians to emulate his works in some degree.

In reply to another question, "How can mortal mind be 'at enmity' if mortal mind does not exist?" let me say that mortal mind, as understood in Christian Science, is the adversary, the devil. Christ Jesus defined the devil as having no place in the truth "because there is no truth in him," and as "a liar, and the father of it." That which has no place in Truth is not an entity. It is the opposite of Truth. Since there is nothing true but Truth, and error is not true, error has no reality, and the correctness of this statement can be proved by demonstration.