Article June 6, 1903 Issue

"What is Christian Science?"

JAMES D. SHERWOOD

Fort Worth (Tex.) Register

Mr. Editor,

In seeking answers to the question, "What is Christian Science?" our critic seems to have sought everywhere but in the right place, and he reminds one of the fruitless search of the parents of Jesus, when they sought for him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. When later they sought in the right place, they found him, and he rebuked them by asking: "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" Rotherham's translation of this text has this footnote: "The implied answer is, 'To seek for me thus was an inadvertence on your part. It should have occurred to you at once that you would find me here.' 'Where my father's affairs are carried on, there you are sure to find me.' 'A child is to be found at his father's.' "

Does our critic find fault with Christian Science because its works approach the requirements left by our master whose injunction was: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned"?

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