There comes to our notice, from time to time, reports that Christian Science is a dangerous study, inasmuch as it unfolds the Scriptural fact that God is too pure to behold iniquity, notwithstanding it furnishes unmistakable proofs of the verity of this assertion. That it gives no license whatever to evil-doing will be seen in the following statement, to be found in the pamphlet entitled Christian Science: No and Yes:
God is Truth, and the law of Life and Truth is the law of Christ, destroying all sense of sin and death. It does more than forgive the false sense, named sin; for it pursues and punishes it, and will not let sin go until it is destroyed,—until nothing is left to be forgiven, to suffer, or to be punished.
It is too awful a fact to contemplate, that a student should leave Mrs. Eddy's class, and so pervert her teaching on this point as to make the fact of God's absolute purity serve as the excuse for iniquitous indulgence, in the face of this intelligent law and its penalty. On the other hand, what is the legitimate outcome of this disclosure, when understood, but the hope of salvation to mortals, even Life from the dead?
