Article October 5, 1912 Issue

As Christian Science has once again been adversely criticized...

E. M. Ramsay

Montrose (Scot.) Standard

As Christian Science has once again been adversely criticized in your columns, I shall be glad if you will allow me to make a reply. The writer would put Christian Science outside the pale of Christianity, because it does not interpret the gospel teachings as he interprets them. If there were no difference of opinion in the interpretation of the Scriptures, there would be but one Christian church; but each one of the many Christian sects represents a different view held of some Scriptural doctrine or practise.

The method of comparing isolated Bible texts with isolated statements from Mrs. Eddy's works will not commend itself to the thinkers. The gospel treated in the same way would appear to contradict itself: "I and my Father are one." "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God;" and again, "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise." "Before Abraham was, I am." There was a time when these and similar statements appeared mysterious and obscure; now, through the teaching of Christian Science, they have become comprehensible, satisfying, plain.

Before becoming a Christian Scientist, I was a firm believer in the doctrine of the trinity; I believed, but did not understand, for, as the Athanasian creed truly says, the doctrine, as therein set forth, is incomprehensible. Through the study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I came gradually to see the mystery disappear, the truth stand revealed in its simplicity and its glory. The healing in Christian Science is founded on a right concept of the trinity, which is impossible without this recognition. The paths of this work-a-day world are transformed by its light. When once a man has seen what the doctrine of the trinity really is, he cannot contemplate life without this knowledge. Finally, let me say that Mrs. Eddy had no belief in spirits, had no faith in spiritualism. She taught that there is but one Spirit, God.

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