Article April 23, 1910 Issue

The other day there was published a short synopsis of a...

A. C. Fishback

Indianapolis (Ind.) News

The other day there was published a short synopsis of a paper that had been read before the ministerial association, in which a critic vigorously attacked Christian Science, I am not a Christian Scientist, but I am a member of the same denomination as that critic. Besides, I have met the gentleman and admire him. His statement that Christian Science has "caught us napping" is a little insipid, and is closely akin to an incident that will be readily recalled by Bible readers. I recall that Alexander Campbell during the first half of the last century caught the orthodoxy of that day napping, and when they were finally aroused they became almost a unit in persecuting Campbell and his followers, and for fifty years the Christian church had to fight for its life—in fact, some of our older brethren still fire a broadside now and then at their enemies, just to let them know that they, like the flag, are "still there." All of this is recent history, so recent in fact that I am astonished that any minister of the Christian church could be induced to lead an attack that savors of persecution against any people who call Christ the Lord.

C. S. Adams in Warren (O.) Tribune.

Christian Science does not claim to teach anything not found in the Bible or that may not easily be deduced from Bible statements. What it does claim is that it has reduced these statements to a system that may readily be comprehended by modern thought and that may be practically applied to the healing of sickness and sin. That it does this, any one who will give the requisite time and thought to the subject may prove for himself.

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