Article June 4, 1910 Issue

In an otherwise kindly criticism of Christian Science,...

W. E. Fell

Yorkshire (Eng.) Post

In an otherwise kindly criticism of Christian Science, the Rev. W. F. Mayer is reported in your columns as having "described the teaching of Christian Science as a strange mixture of truth and error, and its treatment of Scripture as abounding in faulty exegesis and distorted interpretations."

Now it seems to me that the only rational way of bringing home to the Christian Scientist the errors under which he is supposed to labor would be to show him a better way of destroying sin, sickness, disease, sensuality, and the drink and drug habit than that which he is practising. Such a demonstration of the understanding of a better way would carry more weight than carping criticism mixed with faint praise. Jesus did not say that it was by their religious views or professions, but "by their fruits," that the true Christian should be known. It is not words of which the world is in sore need today, but a return to the healing Christianity of Christ and his immediate followers. Christian Science is a religion of works, and that is why its success is phenomenal.

Most emphatically Christian Science does not rob "the New Testament of its Saviour," but it does unfold to the unprejudiced seeker for truth a present Saviour "at hand," bringing to sinful and suffering humanity an absolutely full salvation from sickness as well as sin—salvation from all that is unlike God, whose image and likeness the real man bears. The progress of this practical Christianity is assured, because it is the direct teaching of Jesus, from which all merely human opinion and dogma are eliminated. Why should any Christian wish to hinder or criticize that which heals the sick, reforms the sinner, and frees man from loathsome habits? "Faith without works is dead."

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