Article June 14, 1969 Issue

Letters to the Press

FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

with contributions from H. Dickinson Rathbun, Lee. Mitchell

The Presbyterian Outlook
Richmond, Virginia

In his January 13 page titled "Christian Doctrine," [the writer] makes a statement about Christian Science which, although true, actually misrepresents our teaching more than it reports it. He writes, "Our friends of the Christian Science churches tend to take the view that evil is not real. ... But like the rest of us, all Christian Scientists still die."

He's right. But he's wrong, too. ... We are intimately acquainted with the sting of death and also with the burdens of sin and sickness. But to imply that we somehow just brush evil aside with a flippant "It isn't really there," is to misunderstand and to sadly misrepresent the life purpose of every faithful Christian Scientist.

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