Article November 30, 1940 Issue

In a recent issue a correspondent has written in regard to...

Captain William H. Coomber, Committee on Publication for Bedfordshire, England,

Biggleswade Chronicle

In a recent issue a correspondent has written in regard to "Christian Science and the Gospel," making certain statements concerning this religion which are incorrect. May I once ask the courtesy of space in your next issue for a brief statement of the facts?

Christian Science teaches that the power of Mind, God, is supreme, but healing in Christian Science is never brought about through vainly imagining that one has no disease, if to human sense such disease is obvious, or through any mental jugglery. Healing in Christian Science results from an understanding of the omnipresence of God, divine Mind.

The statement, "Christian Science rejects the fact of his [Jesus'] atoning death," is incorrect. The fourth of the six religious Tenets of Christian Science reads: "We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497).

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