Article September 27, 1941 Issue

In the Montags-Post of the Solothurner Zeitung, you...

Eduard Kreil-Maeder, Committee on Publication for German-speaking Switzerland,

Solothurner Zeitung

In the Montags-Post of the Solothurner Zeitung, you recently published an article in which Christian Science is mentioned. It is said that it considers sickness the result of evil imagination. This calls for some explanation.

In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, makes the following statement (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction."

Thus Christian Science does not pretend that sickness is simply imagination, but it declares that sickness is not a part of God's creation, of which it is written in the Bible, "Behold, it was very good." In the article in question it is also said that "those are sick who act against Christ." Christian Science declares that if sin, or the transgression of God's commandments, produces sickness, obeying those commandments brings health. Jesus overcame sin, sickness, and death, and thereby proved that they cannot be a part of the divine creation. He said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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