In a recent issue a contributor to your newspaper, discussing...

Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Lincoln

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In a recent issue a contributor to your newspaper, discussing the business depression, said: "Everywhere various answers have been given, but none of them can be considered an infallible cure-all. Some would apply the Christian Scientist doctrine, viz., that such an evil does not exist." This statement may give a distorted view of what Christian Science really teaches, and so I ask space for a brief correction.

Christian Scientists do not ignore the fact that a business depression is now manifested in human affairs, but they do know that it is not real. The word "real" in this connection is used in its scientific sense. All reality, Christian Science teaches, is of God. Nothing He has created can ever become imperfect, since He is perfect. Therefore, in the realm of the real, which is the state mankind should seek to perceive and attain, there exists nothing that is unlovely, inharmonious, or imperfect.

This point is made very clear by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 337 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she has written: "Eternal things (verities) are God's thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal."

Christian Scientists earnestly strive to bring into human relations the corrective, healing effect of scientific, right thinking. They regard the present depressed state of business, with its attendant ills of lack and want, as the result of wrong thinking. They know it can be dispelled by the apprehension of the fact that God, the source of all real supply, is unlimited. Bringing this truth to bear on the fears and erroneous thought displayed in present economic conditions will restore confidence and banish inactivity and lack to the shadowland of the unreal.

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