Article August 22, 1901 Issue

Christian Science Fact

Albert K. Duff

The United Presbyterian

This article is written in defence of no cult or creed. It is not even a plea for justice. Its purpose is to set before the readers of The United Presbyterian real facts as they exist, and if vital danger threatens teach them to overcome, not ignorantly ignore it.

The antagonistic attitude employed by so many in the columns of the religious press, by long array of argument, obscuring real issues, belittling real accomplishments, and ridiculing real virtues is repellent to the student of twentieth-century civilization. We are no longer influenced by old, perfunctory, battering-ram tactics, in our battles against untruth. Narrow-minded, fossilized pelters of strained and distorted logic are back numbers in the field of thought. We conquer by full and careful investigation, confessing the good, and warning against the evil.

In forming our judgment of Christian Science, the Saviour's question will be suggestive, "Think ye that they were sinners above all men?" There is a basic principle of truth in the pope, faith cure, Christian Science, mind cure, osteopathy, etc., and only the wilfully blind, or unfair and dishonest writer will attempt to conceal it. If it were entirely false there could be no danger. To say that Christian Science is the work of the devil because it is the revival of black art, is all rot. It degrades the ministry in the eye of well thinking scholars of to-day that such utterances emanate from the pulpit. To assume that faith has no power in the healing of disease is to discredit a cardinal principle of the gospel. Distinction against Christian Science must be finely woven, and in argument cautiously drawn out.

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