Christian scientists are frequently charged with certain inconsistencies wholly apart from the teachings of this discovery of the nineteenth century.
A million men and women who are the adherents or the friends of this faith in the United States, can bear witness that Christian Science does not profess to remove things that are real.
The turn in the road at which Christian Scientists must part company with their unjust critics is where they misstate our great basic Principle and assert that evils are real, while we attempt (as they say) their removal by just saying they do not exist,—that we put clothes upon our bodies by "summoning up an ulster—in our mind." We reply that mortals ignorantly make a reality of evil,—making that real which God did not create,—and then hold God accountable for their suffering. Christian Science enters a strong denial that God—Good—sends aught but good to a man.
