Article February 11, 1939 Issue

Your correspondent, while expressing interest in and...

Lieut. Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,

Tunbridge Wells Advertiser

Your correspondent, while expressing interest in and sympathy with the teachings of Christian Science, falls into the error of confusing it with human philosophy.

Christian Science is not a human philosophy. It is a reinstatement of primitive Christianity—practical, simple, and Christlike. It may not have occurred to your correspondent that Christ Jesus declared the nothingness of matter and the allness of Spirit in his words to the woman at the well of Sychar, when he said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." St. Paul also propounded the same truth in the words, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." These great teachers did not leave their teaching in the hands of human philosophy. Through the exercise of spiritual power, the power of God, they translated words into works, and without the aid of material means healed the sick, reformed the sinner, and even raised the dead.

Similar signs are being repeated today through the practice of Christian Science, and through this Science the teachings and practice of Christ Jesus have been given a deep and profound significance and impetus.

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