A treatise in your columns, dealing with various theories...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—San Benito

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A treatise in your columns, dealing with various theories regarding the Supreme Being, leaves room for misapprehension as to what Christian Science teaches concerning God and man. Therefore, a statement thereon is respectfully submitted in elucidation.

In your contributor's assertion that the human being would have "no reason for existence" if he were omniscient, "as is God," it is plain to be seen that he does not understand Christian Science, as he posits this declaration as indicating that Christian Science teaches that mankind is omniscient. But this is not true. Furthermore, Christian Science wholly discredits the doctrine of anthropomorphism.

Christian Science, in teaching that God is Mind (the word "Mind" being capitalized to denote a synonym for Deity) thereby reveals His omniscience. It follows that man can only reflect the omniscience or intelligence of Mind, or God: this teaching conforming alike to right reasoning and revelation. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion," is a scientific statement as to the relationship between God and man, between creator and created. Christian Science does not teach that God has a mind; it teaches that God is Mind.

Without going into an extended analysis of this infinite theme, it can be convincingly asserted that a proper test of any concept of God lies in the demonstrability of the rightness of that concept. And, in its confirmation of God's power through the "signs following" (healing) that are promised "them that believe" (understand), Christian Science proves, beyond all possibility of refutation, that its teachings conform to Truth's immutable law, and are based on a right apprehension of Him, whom correctly to understand is life eternal.

Discussions such as gave rise to our critic's thesis are significant "signs of the times," indicating, as they do, humanity's earnest seeking after the true God—the deep longing to know Him aright, portending the day when the Scriptural promise will be fulfilled, namely, when they shall all know God "from the least of them unto the greatest of them." But, as Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, maintains, the final answer to the query, "What is God?" must ever rest in spiritual demonstration and revelation rather than in materialistic hypotheses or mere unsupportable theological doctrines or dogmas.

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