Article March 1, 1900 Issue

Veritas Answered

J. Edward Smith

The Courier

Editor Courier, Dear Sir:—In your edition of December 21, 1899, was a letter signed Veritas, in which the writer ostensibly attacks Christian Science as a religion, but in reality attacks Christianity.

Science needs no logical defence and no logic can overthrow it, for all Science is divine, else God is not the great Author and Creator of all. All God's works were pronounced good and God is conceded to be Omniscience (All Science), hence, all God's works are scientific, therefore to deny Christianity scientific basis and operation is infidelity. To denominate the works which Jesus set for a sign to "every one that believeth," as "belonging to the realm of fancy, imagination, and supernatural,"—to denominate as such, the healing of sickness and sin, and that, too, in the face of all the Bible promises in this direction, is a denial of the Bible itself, and certainly challenges the truth of Christ's doctrine and the sincerity of his promises.

To conclude that God will not hear the prayers of poor, suffering, and sin-laden humanity, and send His word to heal them, is to mock the divine mercy and make "Him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." What is the record which God gave of His Son? What record did the Son leave behind him? He healed sickness and sin from first to last. What does God require of us? That we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. What did the Lord himself say of those who believe? "And these signs shall follow them that believe." Jesus said he came to do the will of his Father, and he did just these things. He said that all believers should do the works that he did if they would keep his word; that is, understand his doctrine, and we take him at his word.

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