Article November 20, 1909 Issue

The helpful doctrines of Christian Science are as old as...

Abbot Edes Smith

Elgin (Minn.) Monitor

The helpful doctrines of Christian Science are as old as the Bible, for this religion is founded upon the Bible, which is accepted as its final authority. The Bible, and therefore Christian Science, teaches that sin, disease, death, and all evil forces have but a finite and temporal existence and are not the permanent realities of God's creation. "The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

Christian Science proclaims Jesus proclaims Jesus Christ as Master and Saviour, and accepts all that he taught, and what his apostles taught concerning him. All creeds professing to be Christian must be tested, not by human theories, but by the Bible. Christian Science recognizes as finite and temporal the belief in the reality of pain, matter, disease, death, and sin; these are "the things which are seen," which the apostle Paul declares to be "temporal;" and not "the things which are not seen," which Paul affirms to be "eternal." Again we read: "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." To the sick man and the sinner sickness and sin are for the time real, until God's love and power have healed the sick man and reformed the sinner, thus making these evils no longer real to them. Said the psalmist: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases."

Christian Science accept the whole Bible. God's Word declares: "I am God, and there is none else." The whole Bible teaches that life comes, not from material organism, but from God, and that there is no form of evil or of limitation (to which mortals believe that they are subject) which God does not remove and nullify. Men need suffer therefrom no longer than until they seek and find God's infinite help, against which evil cannot stand, for the prophet Habakkuk tells us that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil."

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