Article December 18, 1902 Issue

Right View of Atonement

Clarence A. Buskirk

Vincennes (Ind.) Commercial

Mr. Editor:— In your city there is a little band of Christian Scientists who are striving to carry out their understanding of the true doctrine and duty of Christians; who are not abusing or traducing others for their religious convictions; but who do not like to have their own earnest religious convictions publicly denounced as "straight from hell."

When the priesthood of the then established religion in the country of Jesus denounced his works of going about and healing the sick by spiritual methods, as the "works of Beelzebub," the harshness of the hate-born language which they employed could neither take the place of logic nor weaken the mighty forces of what Jesus did as evidence of the truthfulness of his teachings. Every advance in the world's thought has encountered the hate and denunciation of those whose social, ecclesiastical, or business interests it has seemed likely to disturb. But "the world moves notwithstanding." Christian Science is making a very great and rapid growth throughout Christendom. Nearly seven hundred churches in this country, the Canadas, and Europe organized within the last few years, and several hundred thousand people testifying to the efficacy of Christian Science methods, attest this growth.

If Mr. Blackstone has ever studied the matter in any scholarly way, he ought to know that Buddhism, Theosophy, and Christian Science are not properly classed together. Their doctrines and practices are entirely distinct and different, as much so as those of Methodism and Mormonism. To put them in the same category is merely to practise a hackneyed trick of the sophists.

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