Article July 5, 1941 Issue

A recent issue contains an article which refers to Christian Science...

R. Ashley Vines, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,—Warburton

Signs of the Times

A recent issue contains an article which refers to Christian Science as "soul-ensnaring," because Christian Science is said to teach "that the soul of man ever continueth." Your contributor has misunderstood the meaning of the word "Soul" as used in Christian Science.

"In Science we learn that it is material sense, not Soul, which sins; and it will be found that it is the sense of sin which is lost, and not a sinful soul. When reading the Scriptures, the substitution of the word sense for soul gives the exact meaning in a majority of cases." These words are used by Mary Baker Eddy on pages 481 and 482 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And Mrs. Eddy adds this further explanation: "As used in Christian Science, Soul is properly the synonym of Spirit, or God; but out of Science, soul is identical with sense, with material sensation."

Job's dictum, "Man that is born of a woman is of few days. ... He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not," evidently refers to the shadow man, or counterfeit man, who is not the real man created by God, Spirit.

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