Article December 2, 1911 Issue

In the account of the remarks of a clergyman before the...

George A. Law

New Haven (Conn.) Union

In the account of the remarks of a clergyman before the Connecticut Baptist convention, in referring to what he terms soul hunger, he is credited with having said, "There is Christian Science, professing to satisfy the hunger, although it denies the reality of sin and exalts Mrs. Eddy above the Christ."

Inasmuch as the gentleman belongs to a profession devoted to the destruction of sin and its results, he apparently places himself in a peculiar position when he finds fault with the attitude taken in Christian Science relative to sin, for were the gentleman's contention true and well taken, all the efforts to free humanity from its bondage would avail nothing, since it is a self-evident proposition that it is impossible to destroy anything which is real. In Christian Science sin is regarded as that which has no just claim to a rightful place in the life of man; that it is illegitimate, abnormal, a producer of discord, inharmony, and unhappiness, to be contended with and eliminated from man's experience. It is in the sense that such belong to that which is temporal and fleeting, and not to the permanent and enduring, that in Christian Science sin is regarded as unreal; and for the reason that it can be destroyed and thereby the peace and harmony of man established, is proof of its unreality.

Christian Scientists do not "exalt Mrs. Eddy above the Chrsit," nor do they consider her as having been equal to Christ, as has sometimes been stated. Christian Scientists never considered Mrs. Eddy as supernatural; they love her for what she accomplished and for what she was, in the same sense in which any teacher might be regarded. Those who are beneficiaries of her labor and sacrifice for humanity, justly recognize their debt to her for health, happiness, and their return to usefulness. Evidence of the general recognition of her worth was the beautiful tribute world was almost universally given by the press of the world at the time she passed away.

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