Article April 15, 1911 Issue

I need hardly remind your readers of the fact that while...

E. M. Ramsay

Telegraph and Post

I need hardly remind your readers of the fact that while all the evangelical churches take the Bible as the foundation of their doctrines, they differ very widely one from another in the interpretation which they give to various passages of Scripture. Our Saviour gave a simple test by which his followers might prove whether they understood his teachings aright: "These signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Had the Christian church kept this commandment in the forefront of its teaching, and faithfully obeyed it, we should have fewer sects and less divergence of doctrine than is to be found today.

There are other Bible commandments and precepts which have been little regarded, and Christian Science is bringing these to the notice of the world, and is showing very plainly that it is just this neglect which prevents the Christian of the present day from walking in such close communion with God as did the Christian of the first century. We are told to rejoice evermore; to pray without ceasing. We are also told that it is by means of praise that we enter God's courts; that it is the meek who inherit the earth, and the child-heart which enters the kingdom.

Religion has been associated, unfortunately, with gloom and fear, and God has been regarded as a severe judge, surrounded in mystery and ruling by methods inscrutable to men. This view of God has alienated men from Him, and driven them into agnosticism. Christian Science, on the other hand, reminds men that he who best knew God's nature called Him by the endearing name of Father, and said to his followers, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light." It reiterates the Master's declaration, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and further proceeds to show how we may attain to this knowledge of truth by a clear, scientific process of right reasoning wholly based on the nature of God and man as set forth in the Scripture.

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