Article March 20, 1920 Issue

In a reported sermon a clergyman is made to say that...

Lee White

Elmhurst (Ill.) Press

In a reported sermon a clergyman is made to say that Christian Scientists deny the atonement of Jesus. On the contrary, they believe in it more than do most people; for it means to them salvation not only from sin but from sickness, thus proving that Jesus' atonement affords, not a partial, but a full salvation for all men.

The report said, "Christian Science has no Lord's Supper and no ordinance of baptism." Communion is celebrated in the Churches of Christ, Scientist, at stated intervals, not with the use of material symbols of bread and wine, but in silent communion with the one infinite Mind, God. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 35): "Our bread, 'which cometh down from heaven,' is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers." Baptism means to the Christian Scientist, putting off the carnal mind and putting on the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."

In the report the statement was made that "Mrs. Eddy spent twenty years of her life giving spiritualistic seances in and around Boston." The statement is utterly false. There is no agreement between the teachings of Christian Science and those of spiritualism. Mrs. Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 95), answers the question, "Am I a spiritualist? lam not, and never was. I understand the impossibility of intercommunion between the so-called dead and living."

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