Article June 19, 1902 Issue

Christian Science Expounded

Severin E. Simonsen

Waterbury (Conn.) American

To the Editor of the American.

In your esteemed paper for May 3 you have an article under the heading, "A Heathen's View of Us." In this article you point out that there are both curious and superstitious things in America as well as in China. This is no doubt true, but when you undertake to classify Christian Scientists under this head we most strenuously object. For there is nothing curious about Christian Scientists except that they are, as God has said his people would be, "a peculiar people." They firmly believe in and adhere to their teachings that there is but one God, one Power, one Life and Truth, and that man is the image and likeness of God, and is not a slave to sin, sickness, and death; but he is as the Bible teaches us, the child of God, with dominion over all.

Christian Science is anything but a superstition, or a religion based on ignorance and abnormal religious feeling and fear. In fact, it is the only system of religion that fearlessly, honestly, and successfully has grappled with this arch-fiend—superstition—which has for so many thousand years held mankind in its merciless grip of fear, sin, and sickness and death. It is the religion of to-day that has taken hold, and with success rent in twain the veil of superstition and again brought out the true nature and character of God, and man as His image and likeness,— perfect, unfallen, free, and subject only to God.

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