Article December 7, 1907 Issue

So far as Christian Science itself was concerned, he...

[We copy from The Glasgow Herald the following very interesting extract from its report of the opening address of Principal Lindsay delivered at the United Free Church College. The Herald states that "there was a large attendance of students, members of Presbytery, and the general public." Principal Lindsay's subject was "Some Modern Religious Currents." —Editor Sentinel.]

So far as Christian Science itself was concerned, he feared it was impossible to separate the foundation from the superstructure, but those who were not Christian Scientists might do so. Metaphysics apart, what was the kernel of this faith? Was it not that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the body as well of the soul, and that he can heal disease as well as sin? The whole Christian Church of the first three centuries believed this most earnestly. They found it in the Gospels, in the Epistles, and in the whole of the sub-apostolic literature. Church historians too long ignored the enormous part that the ministry of healing played in the early centuries of the Christian Church. He was almost inclined to say from the standpoint of Church history that modern Christian Science had set out on a quest after a lost faith—once a real part of Christianity—and was in this way satisfying a dumb craving of the pious soul which our churches were neglecting and leaving unsatisfied. Yes, he was inclined to think that ... no church is altogether blameless. They had largely neglected two things which were real parts of New Testament teaching, viz., the promised presence of God within the believer's soul, and that Jesus is the Saviour of the body. They had deprived men and women of the solace needed to complete their faith, and they were now suffering in consequence.

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