Article October 14, 1939 Issue

The report of the Christian Science lecture in a recent...

John Allen Northfield, Committee on Publication for Suffolk, England,

Stowmarket Recorder

The report of the Christian Science lecture in a recent issue has evidently given your correspondent "Studious" food for thought, and his suggestion that it should be read a second time is a good one.

He rightly says that the word "science" implies a comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the truth about and subject. Surely the highest Science must be that which deals with the supreme Principle and divine laws governing the universe, including man—the Science of being. The understanding and demonstration of this divine Science can never be "static," but must always include a progressive unfoldment of truth in the consciousness of mankind.

When Christian Science affirms that man is perfect, and incapable of sin, sickness, and death, it is not the human or physical personality that is referred to, but the spiritual, eternal selfhood of man as the immortal son of God; in other words, the reality and not the counterfeit. The material senses do not cognize the real man, the perfect image and likeness of God. Our realization of the allness of God and of the real man's unity with God, as taught in Christian Science, brings regeneration and healing into every aspect of our human lives. Thus your correspondent is in accord with the teachings of Christian Science when he says that, in order that humanity's problems may be solved, the kingdom of God must be established in the hearts of the people.

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