Article December 14, 1899 Issue

Reply to Dr. Fulton

Chicago Times-Herald

Grand Rapids, Mich., November 21. — Rev. Dr. Fulton's sermon attacking Christian Science has created considerable comment here and has drawn out a vigorous reply from a citizen of this town. The contributor signs himself "B. B.," and writes as follows to the Grand Rapids Herald;

In his sermon Sunday evening, November 5, Rev. John M. Fulton of the Westminster Presbyterian Church assailed with ridicule, invective, and slang the beliefs of the Christian Science denomination.

In this age, when a better civilization has softened the asperities and intolerance which characterized the bigotry of the past; when practically the Christian churches of all denominations have come to recognize the fact that all the others are working along their own lines and with their own peculiar construction and interpretation of religious truth, and yet all working in the name of the same Master and for the same ends, for the bettering of mankind; when such a spirit of harmony and toleration has come to pervade all religious faiths calling themselves Christian, it comes with surprise when some minister of the Gospel, from his pulpit, in the pride and intolerance of his own opinion, viciously attacks the motives, tenets, and beliefs of some other recognized body of Christian believers.

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