Article April 16, 1910 Issue

The results of Jesus' ministry proved that he knew...

John L. Rendall

Council Bluffs (la.) Nonpareil

The results of Jesus' ministry proved that he knew more about the best way to cure or overcome sin, disease, and death than any one who ever trod the globe, and he promised to his followers throughout all time, "Greater Works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." It seems strangely inconsistent that ministers of Christian churches should in one breath commend to their congregations the healing work of Jesus Christ and in the next breath belittle and denounce those who today are the most active exponents of the healing religion which Jesus taught and practised.

It is no new thing for Christian Scientists to be objects of attack from ministers and others. Neither is this a new condition of things in the world's religious history, it is an experience which finds its prototype in the attitude taken by the chief priests and leaders of ecclesiastical monopoly in Jesus' time, and which expressed certain elements of human thought in the crucifixion of the one who brought to the world its clearest and most potent message of salvation from sin and sickness. It will therefore availnothing for ministers of any demomination to refer to Christian Science as "a fad which is leading many wellmeaning people astray." Neither will it avail anything for them to attempt to belittle the text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, for the reason that the teachings of this book have thrown a positive light upon the healing truths expressed in Scripture and opened up the way of salvation to hundreds of thousands of people who were in great need.

Christian Science offers to humanity that which satisfies their religious cravings, that which heals and saves in the most complete way. It presents to the world a satisfactory, reasonable, logical, and practical teaching, and the fact that intelligent people in and out of all religious denominations have accepted it and found peace within its borders, means much. It is perhaps needless to state that no effort, whether organized or unorganized, whether in the open or subtle, can ever overthrow this positive demonstrable teaching of truth. If other Christian churches have failed to meet the needs of their membership, they should take pattern by Christian Science, which is meeting these needs and presenting to the world the teachings of our Master in their completeness. In Christian Science it is recognized that not person but divine Principle is the healing potency. Mrs. Eddy has said: "Follow your Leader only so far as she follows Christ" (Messages, p. 78).

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