The Church Scholiast is a rigid Episcopal paper, published monthly in Delafield, Wisconsin, and having offices in our principal cities. In the July number is an article on Christian Science, by Quibus. Here is the opening statement; which is not a bad one, except that it perhaps credits Christian Science with laying more emphasis than it really does on the relation of sin to disease:
This name [Christian Science] is applied to a collection of theories in connection with mind-cure, put forth by a certain Mrs. Eddy. She claims to have rediscovered the Gospel, which she says has been lost sight of since the days of the original Teacher. To Mrs. Eddy, the great object of Christ's work, and of Christianity as taught by him, is to abolish physical disease in this present life, by removing its cause, which is sin. But as sin is simply ignorance, its remedy consists in proper instruction; and this instruction makes up Christian Science, so called.
Christian Science teaches that sickness is a delusion. There is no such thing, except in our imagination. If we can therefore grasp perfectly the truth that we are not sick, the very delusion itself will disappear, and good health will be secured. In reply to objections drawn from sensible experience, it is further taught that material sensation is the very point of deception, for "matter is a myth." We are not material beings, and can not be materially affected. We are spiritual; and by that is meant unsubstantial, for Mrs. Eddy denies that we are anything else than "thoughts of God."
