Article November 23, 1912 Issue

The presumption of one who undertook, as quoted in a...

Frank Bell

Williamsport (Pa.) Sun

The presumption of one who undertook, as quoted in a recent issue, to stigmatize Christian Science as unchristian, is equaled only by the degree of ignorance displayed in the attempt to classify it with such utterly dissimilar things as Mormonism, spiritualism, and Brahminism.

Those who reject what they consider Christian Science to be, are entitled to respect in their opinions, but the day has gone by when the subject may be dismissed in any such offhand disregard of the facts as in the instance above noted. Christian Science is as unlike the beliefs mentioned in connection with it as it is unlike any system that would attempt to define Christianity in terms of profession rather than of practise.

Christianity was founded by one who never asked a follower to subscribe to the theories of "the ancient and historic church," but instead laid down the rule, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." These works certainly included the healing of the sick by purely spiritual means. Scholastic theology has tried for centuries to improve on that all-comprehensive definition of a Christian, but the failure of the attempt to substitute words for deeds was never more widely discerned than today, when the general trend of thought is toward requiring every doctrine to prove itself.

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