The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-10
SIMPLE LOGIC or CHRISTIAN x
 SCIENCF.n


 The view which Christian Scientists take of disease may well be illustrated by the relation which darkness holds t0 light or black to the various colorss Darkness is not an entity or a reality but merely the absence of light; biacE is not a. color, but rather the negati0n of all color. So disease is viewed m X Christian Science as the absence or ne- gation of health, and not as positive quantity. This is far from calling dis- X ease imaginary, for it is just as reaIN as any negation can be- HumanlN speaking. disease is distressingly real A! while it lasts but when it is entirely gone, destroyed, by whatever n1eans where is its reality? It might be term ed. paradoxically, temporary realitys but. in point of fact, the real is the eternal and indestructible, and die- ease certainly does not belong to such a category. s. S
 Viewed merely as t1erapeuticR { agent Christian Science goes on step beyond homeopathy. The latter, in its high potency phase administers msdi@ cine in which the drug can no longer 1 be detected, even by the subtlest chemi-t cal test. As foremost homoeopat nic X physician once said of such medicinesS "There is nothing left but mind. ss l Now. Christian Science heals by aYl | understanding of Mind-not of the ha1- man mind. which modern psychologists | have laid bare with such pitiless perse- verance-but of the One Mind, or Spir- | it.. which is God. The results are truly l ic h A. KnOVVIYN l disease which has not yielded t0 tIie blessed realizatiosn which comes from knowing God, even little. Herein liesS | inc justification for the title of Chrts- tian Science, that it is Christian be- cause it explains the life and works 0f Christ; and it is scientific because ss IA nroduces definite, ascertainable resuftsss5 1 and those who attempt to prevent tha5 sick who cannot find help in any nlate-S rial remedy, from coming to ChrlstlhM Science are taking very great responSl sibility upon themselves ss
 There is no absurd paradox III Christian Science It starts with Sptr~S if. if holds to Spirit, and ends witlF' Spirit, God and man and the universa are thereby linked together in a logical chain of reasoning. AnA absurd para- l views concerning God and man and thd universe. of which the writer of the .Tulv article is a representative How is if nossible to understand logically al God who is infinite, and yet admits tileI nresence of His opposite, evil? For the term infinite means All, and there can
 ba nothing more than All. If God iA l infinite. and is harmonious, how is lt Ina , cord of disease?
 , The writer of the July article, i1-
 stead of placing the concept of an abs
 surd paradox" upon Christian Sciences $ must first explain the absurd paFa- ] dox" in his own views. He cannoL u0
 this. There is no way out of the dilenl. X ma in which he finds hlmseiI e4ceRs '1c'sRe n throueh A realization of the essential f unrealitv of evil and of disease, as
 taught in Christian Science. Either s God knows and permits evn ln Whien iNz
 acc He cannot be infinite good; or N4S 4 knows no evil. and every concept which
 falls under that head must be outsidg S of His creation But God created a@
 things. therefore if evil exists, Goo
 Infinite Good, must have created it- ll 1. the writer of the July number willinf D, to hold CIOU TeSpOI5lUiS Aoi oAA SiAS 3S- AA
 disease, suffering, and crime to whicl
 mortals believe themselves to be sub Is ject?
 Christian Science offers the only loS'
 ical explanation of the nature of ev1
 which the world has had presented tt 1. it since the days of Jesus and His disci'
 ples It uncovers the mystery of evil l. Evil is not part of Gods creation. < m is illusion and delusion-nothingnes
 outlawed by common sense. It is He l. to be barnded as such. It is no mon
 real than the horizon line on the sea
 which seems to be and is not, ant
 which a traveller might pursue arount
 the earth for ever, and never find.-
 The Simple Logic of Christian Sci A. ence." by W. D. McrCacken, of tn
 Christian Science Publication Commit
 tee in the North American Review. Iy BRIDE A NEW HAVEN GIRL.