The Greeley tribune., 1904-06-02
SAYS HE is WRONG
Reply to Rev. R. J. Huuter Is
Made,
Office State Publication Committee,
Church of Christ, Scientist.

ONCE State Publication Committee,
church of Christ, Scientist.
Pueblo, Colo.
To The Greeley Tribune:
In a recent Sunday sermon deliy-
cred by Rev. Hunter some statements
relative to Christian Science were
made which are not correct. and tie
writer, therefore, begs space In your
paper TO correct them to the intent
that the faith o: Christian Scientists
be not misunderstood. Rev. Hun
ter has wrong conception of Chris.
tian Science when he declares that
Christian Science, by denying the
reality OF sin practically denies that
there Is any sin. No people in the
world are more alive to the real
nature of sin than Christian Sci.
entists' In asserting the lack of
reality OF sin the term reality must
be understood as Christian Scientists
define that word. Christian Sci
ence Is based wholly on the right
conception OF God. God Is Spirit,
Good, is omnipotent, omniscient,
omnipresent. God is all in all. He
always has existed, without end OF
days or beginning of years. HIS
creation is perfect and He made all
that was made land behold it was
very good Therefore God made
all that is real and eternal. Sin,
God did not make because Good can
not produce evil. Sin not being a
creation OF God does not partake of
the attributes Of Diety. 1t is there
fore not immortal and real, because
God never created it. Sin is not
real In the sense that 1t has eternal
existence. In thus freeing their
conception Of God from the incubus
OF evil, Christian Scientists are en-
abled to overcome the fear of sin and
thus destroy 1T. Sin is the negatlon
Of God, as darkness is the negation
OF light. II we accept the dictum
that sin is real there would he no
hope of man every being freed from
its bondage. God would. have
SkSulIh duo ihdu, III ~
would he fighting his Creator who
would be both evil and good-a con-
ceptiop contrary to the nature of
God and to sound reaso ming.
Christian Science does not deny
the personality Of God as Rev. Hun
ter states. Christian Scientists do
not conceive of God as finite per-
sonalty or that He has moral attri-
hutes.
'If the term personality as applied
to God means infinite personality,
, then God is infinite Person-in this
sense, but not in lower sense. An
: infinite Mind, and finite form do
) not, cannot coalesce.' Science and
, Health, page l16.
Rev Hunter also asserted that be-
cause Christian Scientists conceive
OF God as Divine Principle that
, therefore thev reduce him to AN
prayer This is not correct
statement of Christian Science. The
Apostle James defines God as The
Father OF lights with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow Of turn
,, ing" Webster defines principle as
follows: ga source or origin; that
from which anything proceeds; fun
damental substance or energy" :" Prin-
cipe is universal in its application,
is indestrHctible aud eternal. Chris
tan Science applies the term PIiu
cipIe TO Diety because the term
conveys the idea Of the universal,
Interchangeable nature of God, and Is
in no sense an abstraction. The
Golden Rule is based on this con-
ception of God as Principle, and
therefore it applies to all men with
equal force and to all conditions of
society, and furnishes fundamental
basis for the right cooperation Of
man with man. We're this con-
ception or God as absolute, incorpor-
cal Being, better understood the
world would be far happier than
it Is.
Christian Scientists are prayerful
people. They pray understandingly,
and their prayers are answered In
the healing Of the sick, breaking the
bondage of sin, overcoming evil pas
Sions and lifting man into his true
spiritual state as child OF God.
The absurdity Of the reverend gen.
tleman s statement that their prayers
have no efficacy is apparent to every
one at all conversant with the facts.
Christian Scientists know that God
Is unchanging and that his goodness
is universal ir its application. Be-
cause of this conception OF God as
Principle their thought Of Him is
enlarged and they have the happy
results of answered prayers.