Article November 4, 1905 Issue

When the Christian church awakens to its God-given...

John L. Rendall

Dubuque (Ia.) Telegraph-Herald

When the Christian church awakens to its God-given opportunities, it will welcome Christian Science, and recognize the practical nature of its teachings. These teachings emphasize the necessity for and the divine efficacy of true prayer, and prove what Christianity preaches; viz., the certainty of God's loving presence, power, and willingness to save to the uttermost, not only the sinner, but the sick, the diseased, the despondent and heart-sore one who turns to Him for succor and relief.

Is it an "impertinent question," as our critic states, to ask, "Is it God's will that we should be sick?" If so, is it not equally "impertinent" to ask, "Is it God's will that we should be sinners?" If the fact that "Jesus left the vast bulk of sickness and sorrow of his age unrelieved," indicates that it was not the part of the Christian religion to remove it, what does the same process of reasoning indicate concerning the greater bulk of sin, left "undestroyed" when Jesus departed? That it was not the duty of Christians to destroy it? No! and yet one conclusion is as reasonable and logical as the other. Is it not rather the fact, that both sin and sickness were to be healed, eliminated by the active operation of the Christ-truth, in proportion as it became understood in its fulness.

This is what Christian Science is accomplishing. Its healing work is inseparable from its regenerative work, incidental to the spiritual uplifting, part and parcel of its plan of "complete salvation." It is essentially a religion, not a therapeutical system "competing with doctors for fees," as our critic mistakenly asserts.

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