Article January 18, 1908 Issue

The attitude of certain of the local ministers of the...

E. A. F.

Dayton (O.) News

The attitude of certain of the local ministers of the orthodox persuasion toward Christian Science as exhibited on numerous occasions of late, both in sermons and published criticisms, has increasingly impressed me, first, with its unfairness toward the members of the Christian Science Church, who are also cautioned by their Leader to follow her only as the she follows Christ. yet not an existing religious sect is so ridiculed and denounced as Christian Science is to-day. For my part, I am at a loss to know what they have done to deserve such unkind and unchristian treatment. At the worst they are peaceable and law-abiding citizens, never even attempting to proselyte from other faiths; at the best they are a force for good, positive and active, even though some of their tenets without question are at variance with those of the orthodox church ; second, that the attitude of the ministers and laymen of likemindedness is defeating the object sought to be accomplished, namely, as I suppose, wholly against having the new sect and to caution church members against having anything to do with it, and perhaps, particularly, to warn them against taking up with Christian Science healing, even as a last resort, all other means having failed.

As I said my former article, I am by no means a Christian Scientist, for there is much in the doctrine as presented in Science and Health that I am not ready to accept. ... I believe that Christian Science presents some truth, perhaps long-lost and almost forgotten by the Christian church, of which that same church stands in dire need to-day, and that this truth does answer the heart-longings of many who have sought for peace in the orthodox way and found it not.

Theirs is gospel of supreme trust and confidence in God, the divine Principle, the only, force in all the universe. Their trust is alone in the eternal verities, Truth, Life, and Love, all of which they declare God to be, and all else temporal and unreal. They overcome evil with good, and certainly the result is a fruitage of health, harmony, and happiness and all sense of fear is cast out of thousands of minds. And why not? Is not God Love?

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