Editorial April 15, 1944 ISSUE

Nonsense!

John Randall Dunn

A French moralist has observed, "If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father;" and in the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 489,490), Mary Baker Eddy elaborates on this "want of sense." She writes: "A wrong sense of God, man, and creation is non-sense, want of sense. Mortal belief would have the material senses sometimes good and sometimes bad. It assures mortals that there is real pleasure in sin; but the grand truths of Christian Science dispute this error." As for poverty, hear this terse description from an ancient Latin apothegm; "Poverty does not mean the possession of little, but the non-possession of much."

From this, the inference may be clearly drawn that the cause of crime, and of all error, lies in the want, or lack, of sense, of spiritual sense or understanding. The human family suffers from one devastating well-nigh universal malady. It is the non-sense called ignorance. This does not imply that a Christian Scientist when confronted with a sad or serious problem, airily waves error aside with the flippant retort, "Nonsense!" He recognizes and deals with the root of the difficulty, which is want of spiritual sense.

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