Article November 30, 1912 Issue

A recent issue reports in part a clergyman's sermon at...

Willis D. McKinstry

Independence (Kan.) Reporter

A recent issue reports in part a clergyman's sermon at the Coffeyville Chautauqua, in which he makes mention of Christian Science as a religious sign of the times, a warning bell, a danger signal. He is also quoted as saying, among other good things regarding the wrongs of social life, that there is great need of a remedy for such conditions,—that "ignoring vice and sin and suffering does not destroy it." Upon this point we heartily agree with him. These conditions have no quality of God, therefore they cannot be counted among the "very good" things which He created, and He made all that was made.

Yet these evil conditions are not to be ignored or overlooked; they must be recognized and dealt with according to divine justice, for, said Jesus, "every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Upon this subject Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 447): "Expose and denounce the claims of evil and disease in all their forms, but realize no reality in them. . . . To put down the claim of sin, you must detect it, remove the mask, point out the illusion, and thus get the victory over sin and so prove its unreality."

Christian Science, rightly understood, is vastly more than a "warning bell," a "danger signal;" its teachings not only point out the pit and the snare, but offer a way of salvation. Christ Jesus, who came that mankind might have life "more abundantly," also recognized these evils, and his remedy for such conditions was one of healing. He healed both the sinning and the sick, and he said, "I am the way." His way was the one true way, therefore as followers of Christ his way must be our way, and we should be willing to accept and strive to understand the rule he gave by which to apply his teachings: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Thus it is through a spiritual knowledge, the true education, of God and the Christ, that the ills of humanity are to be dealt with ; this is the only remedy.

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