Article December 2, 1911 Issue

I notice that the Gordon Town Missionary still continues...

E. M. Ramsay

Montrose, Arbroath, and Brechin (Scot.) Review

I notice that the Gordon Town Missionary still continues to circulate false charges against Christian Science, and I shall feel grateful if you will allow me to tell your readers something of what Christian Science teaches, that they may judge for themselves whether such teaching makes for the good of the race or for its undoing.

Christian Science is founded on the nature of God and His relationship to His creation, as set forth in the Bible. It recognizes God as infinite, ever present, eternal, all powerful, as the only cause and creator, "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." It acknowledges Him as Father, Love, Spirit, Life. The Christian Science student is taught how to open his consciousness to such thoughts as these, to welcome them with humility, gratitude, and joy. As these heavenly truths enter his heart and take possession of him, he perceives something of the meaning of the following words of our Lord: "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." He begins also to understand St. Paul's statement, "It pleased God ... to reveal his Son in me." Thus in his own heart he knows that man is made in the image and likeness of God, since for the first time in his life he feels satisfied, at home; the everlasting arms are underneath him. At moments such as these he condemns sin as never before, but he sees it as a monstrous delusion, as a nightmare which, having no place in God, can form no real part of His child; he recognizes that as it is not created by God nor permitted by Him, it can possess none of the God-qualities, and is therefore without presence, life, or power. He sees that pure thoughts are essential to health, since God is infinite Life; that to harbor resentment, hatred, revenge, is to feed on poison, is to wander in the prodigal's country, is to be in the outer darkness, far from God and far from home.

Thus this communion with God, with Truth, enables a man to walk the every-day paths of this work-a-day world as a better man, more pure, truthful, serene, faithful, and kind. It makes him more healthy, natural, practical, capable, more successful, humble, and free.

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