Article April 29, 1911 Issue

A critic declares that "Christian Science denies the existence...

Alfred Farlow

Brockton (Mass.) Enterprise

A critic declares that "Christian Science denies the existence of matter;" then adds, "The Bible says God created the earth, and man's body out of dust." Christian Science accords exactly with the teaching of the Scripture, that "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," although it disagrees with the materialist as to the constituency of the heavens and the earth which God created. It plants itself unreservedly upon the Scriptural teaching that the creator and only cause is Spirit, and is wholly consistent with the scientific proposition that "like begets like," that the creation of Spirit is spiritual, and man was made in God's own image and likeness.

The gentleman declares that "to the Christian Scientist filth is as healthy as roses." I am wondering if he holds an acquaintanceship with any Christian Scientists and if he has found them less cleanly than the rest of his neighbors. If not, then he has the evidence that he has misjudged concerning their belief, for one naturally practises according to his belief. Christian Science does not undertake to insist that filth is cleanliness or that evil is good. It draws the line emphatically between the pure and the impure, and insists that one's life must be purged from the impure. Thus it may be noted that on the basis of Christian Science every Christian Scientist is strongly in favor of reasonable sanitary methods, pure air, pure food, because the purest and best on the human plane most nearly approach the spiritual, and he believes in the old adage, "Cleanliness is next to godliness;" that is, cleanliness follows closely in the train of godliness.

The gentleman declares that "Christian Scientists deny the Bible in denying the reality of Jesus Christ." Christian Science indorses everything that the Bible teaches concerning Christ Jesus—that he was manifested in the flesh and rose to the full consciousness of his spiritual individuality and passed beyond human perception, thus proving certain facts concerning the Science of being which were necessary for mortals to understand in order to follow his example.

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