Article September 2, 1911 Issue

The religious body to which our clerical critic belongs...

Frederick Dixon

Islington (Eng.) Gazette

The religious body to which our clerical critic belongs has had every opportunity of giving the people a religion capable of appealing more strongly to their spiritual needs, and open to a higher degree of proof than Christian Science. When he and his supporters are able to offer this, they will have little to fear from Christian Science; until they can do this, their denunciation will, it is to be suspected, be but so many words. It is easy to call Christian Science superstition, and London the throne of Satan. As a matter of fact the expression, the throne of Satan, was originally used of a city dedicated largely to the worship of AEsculapius, so it is possible that the doctor merely meant that London is doctor-ridden.

If it is a sign of superstition to ask for proofs of the theological premises offered to you, Christian Science might be described as superstitious. At the same time the Christian religion is in a similar way superstitious. Jesus declared that those who believed in him would be able to do his works, and so made those works the test of the reality of Christian conduct. When our critic supports his faith in the way demanded by Jesus, he will be in no need of using opprobrious terms in which to describe those who differ from him.

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