Article February 8, 1908 Issue

The remarks of the reverend gentleman at Yatton, on the...

Frederick Dixon

Bristol (England) Times

The remarks of the reverend gentleman at Yatton, on the subject of Christian Science, are instinct with that vague general denunciation of Christian Science of which the country, I venture to think, is growing a little weary.

It is so much easier, from the summit of the smallest critical molehill, to hurl about charges of heresy and falsehood than it is from the level of every-day life to endeavor to give practical expression to the demands Jesus made on believers to do the works he did, that the world is beginning to comprehend the distinction between faith without works and faith by works.

The world is also beginning to comprehend the fact that Christian Scientists do not go to public meetings or write letters to the papers to demonstrate in bitter words their knowledge of the Sermon on the Mount.  "The Sermon on the Mount," wrote Mrs. Eddy, in her "Message to the Mother Church," in June, 1901, "read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice," and Christian Scientists are patiently endeavoring to work out Mrs. Eddy's wise counsel in practice. One of the secrets of their success lies in the fact that, in the effort to gain the fullest understanding of their Master's teaching, they waste no time in criticism of what their neighbors hold most sacred; but, in the words of that magnificent simile which Paul borrowed from the Isthmian games, so far as in them lies, this one thing they do, "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before," they "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

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