Article November 1, 1900 Issue

Criticisms of Christian Science

BY HERBERT G. HOAG.

Occasionally we read of persons who have made but a superficial investigation of Christian Science, or perhaps have no knowledge of it except hearsay, who condemn or ridicule what they do not understand because it is different from their beliefs. They seem to think that because they do not understand it well enough to demonstrate it after but a slight, and perhaps prejudiced, investigation, it must be a delusion.

A little reflection will show how foolish it is for feeble human reason to take such a position in regard to Christian Science or anything else which they have not worked up to. There are many self-evident things which the human mind does not understand, and if they conclude that everything is a delusion which they do not understand, they must conclude, for one thing, that God is a delusion, for the hundreds of religious sects is evidence that God is not understood even by cultured intellects; for when God is understood by humanity there will be but one denomination of religionists, a universal understanding of one God.

By the same process of reasoning life must be a delusion, for does the human mind understand life? If it did, life would not be so uncertain and its opposite, death, would not be so certain; there would be more of life and less of death, or, to carry it to the highest point, when the perfect understanding of Life is reached there will be no death for Life will be sure and permanent.

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