Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-22

Prophet in healing the sick and over coming sin and death'' In that won derful prayer as recorded in the seven teenth chapter of St. John, Jesus, refer ring to His disciples and those who should believe in Him, prayed 'aThat they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be- one in us" Jesus labered, suf- fered, and sacrificed in order that man. kind might understand as he did the Science of true being, and thus be able to demonstrate mans eternal at-one-ment with God.
 When our friend attempts to show that Christian Sciencs is Tn harmony with Satanic theology he simply shows his ignorance of Christian Science Chris tan Science makes an important dis tinction between man, the spiritual image and likeness of God and the sick and sim ful mortal who often seems to be the well-nigh helpless victim of diesease and death. Christian Science does not claim that a mortal man is i'm abslird. Christian Science teaches that the real man, the son of God, is immortal Jesus understood what man really is And when He said: Before Abraham was, I am,'' He was referring to His real, spiritual eternal seifhood John, in speaking of Christ Jesus. said "To as many as received hifh, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. D That Is, those who really understood the divine Science which Jesus taught and demonstrated were able to perceive the nature of tie real man. Paul was referring to the real man when he said in his letter to the Ephesians: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto perfect man, unto the measure of 1 the stature of the fullness of Christ" ss
 MT. Coffee is quite right in saying that according 10 Christian Science sickness and death are unreal But before using this as an argument against Christian l Science, 1t would have been better had our friend learned what the word real signifies as used in Christian Science. Tn Christian Science. the word real is ap- pIid only to God and to His creation
 If God did not create sickness and death 1 then sickness and death are not real
 Now, of course, this is not saying that sickness and death do not seem to mor- tals to be terrible realities. And 1t is ] only as mortals put off mortality and put on immortality can they enter the king. 1 dom of God, the realm of the absolute iy real, where, as we read in Revelation
 21:4, "There shall be no more death | neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shal
 there be any more pain; for the former things are passed sway"
 l MT. CoEee's statements regarding Mark 1e:15-2o are very interesting. Bu
 if he is right about this, We still hay, Jesus declaration: ''He that believetl
 on me, the works that I do shall he d,
 aiso.' And if our friend could prov this statement to be apocryphal, the rec
 ords of the healing performed by Jesu and His disciples and Paul would stil
 remain. And, by the way, if the recori
 be true as found in Acts 28:3-6, Pau was able to deal most effectively wit the viper without the swift medical aid
 which our friend deems such a necessi ty in. such situation.
 As Mr. Coffeess 'scleareut staternen
 were taken from the Christian Scienc textbook, am reluctlantly obliged to be
 lieve that he Intentionally referred t Mrs Eddy as: "a well known Christia
 Science parvenu." Mary Bafer Edd, ] Is recognized the world over as the Dis eoverer and Founder of Christian Science These wf ohave been allied and reform ed through Christian Science honor an fevere this nobit woman, who, in spit !; Of bitter opposition succeeded In deliy ering to mankind her priceless messag,
 Yours truly.
 WILLIAM CAPELL,
 Committee on Publications
 For Connecticut. New Haven, Sept. 20. 1922.