Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Mrs. Eddy's Answer

Mary Baker G. Eddy

This article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 299:1-301:13

Editor of The Commercial Advertiser:

Sir — Over the signature "A Priest of the Church," somebody, kindly referring to my address to the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord, N. H., writes: "If they (Christian Scientists) have any Truth to reveal which has not been revealed by the Church or the Bible, let them make it known to the world, before they claim the allegiance of mankind."

I submit that Christian Science has been widely made known to the world, and that it contains the entire Truth of the Scriptures, as also whatever portions of Truth may be found in creeds. In addition to this, Christian Science presents the demonstrable Divine Principle, and rules of the Bible, hitherto undiscovered in its translations, and lacking in the creeds. In evidence thereof, I query; Do Christians who believe in sin, and especially those who claim to pardon sin, believe that God is Good, and that God is All? Christian Scientists firmly subscribe to this statement; yea, they understand it and the law governing it, God being the divine Principle of Christian Science, and "of purer eyes than to behold iniquity." On this basis they endeavor to cast out the belief in sin, or in aught besides God, thereby enabling the sinner to overcome sin according to the Scripture, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for God worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."

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