Article April 8, 1939 Issue

In a recent issue a contributor stated, "I have some...

J. Palmer Snelling, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,

Macon Telegraph

In a recent issue a contributor stated, "I have some appreciation of the courageous spirit of our Christian Scientists, who, like the Spartan boy, allow a fox to gnaw a hole into their vitals without moving a feature of the face."

This allusion to Christian Scientists was evidently not meant unkindly, but it may have left uninformed readers with some misapprehension as to the teachings of Christian Science. This religion does not teach its adherents to endure pain stoically, but rather to overcome and destroy it through a scientific understanding of the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, divine Mind.

It is stated in the first chapter of Genesis that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Pain could not have been among the "very good" things which God created, and Christian Science is teaching mortals how to rule out this false, material sense of discord through the spiritual understanding of the allness of God. Pain and suffering, as well as the delusive, sinful appetites of the human mind, are being destroyed daily through the beneficent ministrations of this scientific, healing religion. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states that "the only sufferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind cannot suffer" (p. 108); and again (pp. 218, 219), "When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease."

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