Letters June 11, 1949 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

from Christian Science Committees on Publication

Surrey, England Camberley News

I do not wish to trespass unduly on your space, but I should like to point out that Christian Science, while declaring the unreality of evil, recognizes that pain and disease and other evils seem real to the material senses, just as the mistaken conception that the sun revolves round the earth seems real. As your correspondent points out, astronomy corrects the evidence of the senses in the latter case. Christian Science gives a spiritual, scientific explanation of the true nature of God and man and all creation, which corrects the misconceptions of reality called evil, including sickness and pain.

The fact that God is infinite and is good leads inevitably to the conclusion that evil in all its forces is unreal, no matter how real it may seem. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 474: "If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth, and Love, then they must all be from the same source; God must be their author. Now Jesus came to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the Scriptures aver, 'I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.' Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine will?"

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