Article December 17, 1955 Issue

"IT IS WELL"

PEARL MAY SCHLUETER

A General impression among those unacquainted with Christian Science is that Christian Scientists do not join in discussions of disease and death as freely as others do. Another impression is that Christian Scientists are too evasive with answers when questioned concerning sickness. It is felt that the Scientist assumes an attitude of "all is well" when apparently this is not so.

The fact is that all is well. The Bible declares in the first chapter of Genesis that man is made in God's image and likeness. Also we read (verse 31), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Mary Baker Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 207): "There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause." Therefore Christian Scientists accept spiritual man as the one and only image and likeness, and they repudiate the mortal or material sense of man.

When one has reached the conclusion through the study and practice of Christian Science that God is good and that man is spiritual, he can explain the statement "All is well" to someone who believes in the existence of evil. Although the Christian Scientist does not join in discussions of disease, he should not be intolerant of another's right to believe as he wishes. Silence on such an occasion is often wise.

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