Article January 9, 1926 Issue

In the review of a book entitled "Modern Religious Cults and Movements"...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—London

Time and Tide

In the review of a book entitled "Modern Religious Cults and Movements" by the Rev. G. G. Atkins, appearing in your issue of recent date, the statement is made that Christian Science is "an attempt to reconcile the love and goodness of God with pain, sickness, and sorrow, and to a lesser degree with sin." Nothing can be more remote from the teaching of Christian Science. Truth and error cannot be reconciled. The love and goodness of God, spiritually understood, destroy pain, sickness, sorrow, and sin. Dr. Atkins' criticism of Christian Science as a philosophy is based on his human understanding of philosophy; but Christian Science is divine philosophy, and cannot be judged in any way by a human standard.

With regard to the theology of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 138, 139): "Our Master said to every follower: 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature! ... Heal the sick! ... Love thy neighbor as thyself!' It was this theology of Jeans which healed the sick and the sinning. It is his theology in this book and the spiritual meaning of this theology, which heals the sick and causes the wicked to 'forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.'"

The value of his criticism of Christian Science as a system of healing falls to the ground when he states it is "fundamentally a system of suggestion." Neither suggestion, psychotherapy, mesmerism, nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science. It is in proportion as one gains the Mind of Christ that one is able to heal through Christian Science. The erroneous belief is thereby detected, destroyed, and replaced with the spiritual understanding of the eternal divine truth, which our Master said would make men free, thus demonstrating the method of our Master, when he said, "If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you."

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