Article August 6, 1910 Issue

I find our clerical brother again attacking Christian Science,...

John H. Roe

Ogden (Utah) Standard

I find our clerical brother again attacking Christian Science, and reiterating his view that "cultured and cultivated people" have little or no right "to seek redemption and safety by pleading with Almighty God at the mercy-seat" (to use his own words).

If this article had not been written in the first person singular, it would be hard to believe that a minister of the gospel was its author. If this clergyman had confined this criticism to his own church, we would have nothing to say. But as he is attacking Christian Scientists again, as if they should specially be denied this right, we protest that such preaching is a flagrant departure from the Scriptural invitation—"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye." Are we not all invited to come and be "sheltered from the biting rage of the ages' tumultuous storms" (his language)? It would be interesting to know what the "cultured and cultivated" of his own congregation think of their pastor's denial of their right in this respect.

In a congregation of forty-five hundred people, that our critic tells of visiting in Boston, no doubt many would find it convenient and pleasant to go to church in automobiles—some go that way here in Salt Lake even—and it would be perfectly natural to leave the automobiles outside while their owners went inside, as our friend relates they did in Boston—they do the same way here. But in this connection our critic has raised the question by his implied protest against going to church in automobiles; whether their owners should not be denied the rights of the mercy-seat, along with the "cultured and cultivated," already without right in his view.

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