Article November 9, 1907 Issue

To say Christian Scientists lack a definite faith and...

J. A. Houser, M.D.,

Indianapolis (Ind.) Star

To say Christian Scientists lack a definite faith and that they deny the divinity of Jesus Christ is so far from their faith and teachings that it is a great surprise that any minister would make such a statement. The fact is that the Christian Scientists believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. and that he meant what he said when he promised to be with his followers even unto the end. The Christian Scientists take the Bible at its word and believe it means what it says, hence they believe in the power of prayer, not only in purifying a life, but in curing disease.

Christian Science is not a new faith, but a resurrection of the earlier Christian faith. If our critic will consult the early history of the Church, as recorded by Irenæus, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr of the earliest centuries of the Christian era, and others away this side of these fathers of the Church, he will find that all the churches then were Christian Science in belief, and had unlimited faith in prayer and the power of God. through Jesus Christ, in healing the sick and raising the dead. This belief had not died out at the time John Wesley founded the Methodist Church, but as wealth increased and mammon become god, commercialism crept into the Church more and more and the ancient faith waned....

Man's conscience has ever been the companion of his reason, to lead him unharmed over the great, broad way of progress, and will not forsake him now, just as he is passing into the age of religious liberty and the freedom of thought. As he rises above the dark domain of religious tyranny and cruelty, neither his wisdom nor his valor will forsake him, but will be sufficient for all needs of both religion and affairs of state in the future as they have through all the tempest and the night of the frightful and bloody past. This glorious march must continue, guided by the noblest thoughts, till earth is redeemed and mankind find the infinite source and divine origin of man's being.

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