My attention has been called to an article in your latest...

Benson Tatham Woodhead, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Blackburn

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My attention has been called to an article in your latest issue, in which you quote from the current issue of the Blackburn Cathedral Magazine a statement in regard to Christian Science which is not quite correct.

On page 1 of her book "Rudimental Divine Science," Mrs. Eddy defines "Christian Science" as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."

Christian Science, therefore, teaches, in accordance with the Bible, that God's creation is perfect and spiritual. It teaches also that all the trouble and discord and difficulty in our human experience, all sin, sickness, and suffering, arise from a false material sense of God's perfect spiritual universe. Christian Scientists are proving the truth of these teachings in the same way that Jesus did, by healing the sick, saving the sinner, and breaking down many material limitations in their own lives, solely by spiritual means.

The last verse of the first chapter of Genesis states, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Clearly, what God made good nothing can make evil or a cause of evil.

Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Again, he said, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." What was the all-pervading truth which Jesus knew, and which gave him his triumphant and loving power? Was it not that God, Spirit, divine Love, is omnipresent and omnipotent? The material senses deny that great fact of real being, for they cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or feel Spirit, divine Love.

John puts the matter very clearly when he says: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

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