Article January 24, 1953 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

William K. Primrose

Essex Chronicle Chelmsford, Essex, England

In an article in [a recent] issue the statement is made that the orthodox Christian approach to the subject of spiritual healing "differs entirely from the method and doctrine of Christian Science. ... Disease is a grim and terrible fact and it is no delusion."

Christian Science does not deny that disease and, I would add, sin are grim and terrible facts in human experience. Christian Science teaches, however, that in the proportion in which it is understood that all real being is in God, the divine Mind (Acts 17:28), such so-called grim facts will lose their reality in human consciousness and will disappear in the same way as darkness gives place to light. On page 242 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes:

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