Article February 17, 1912 Issue

With all due respect for our clerical critic, I must take...

Charles K. Skinner

Detroit (Mich.) Free Press

With all due respect for our clerical critic, I must take issue with him on the statement in his sermon which was reported as follows: "Today we have a flood of speculation under the guise of ... and Christian Science. These things even have their jargons and phrases which are far from harmless, because they obscure conceptions of God, tend to raise doubts as to His existence, and question individual immortality."

Our brother cannot have given Mrs. Eddy's various writings on the subject of Christian Science the unbiased thought which he would have done were he attempting the solution of a problem in physical science, or he would hardly have made so drastic a statement. The fact that so many men and women of most estimable character and religious sincerity, and from every church affiliation, including his own, have found a nearness to God which they had never before experienced, and a realization of omnipresent Love about them daily and hourly, could not fail to put to flight any possible doubts in their consciousness as to God's existence and the individual immortality of man.

When the student realizes the four cardinal points in Christian Science, first, What is God? second, What is man? third, What is man's relation to God? fourth, What is his birthright by virtue of that relation? he has laid the foundation of a clear understanding and application of the teachings of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" he has discovered that Mrs. Eddy was not talking in riddles or meaningless phrases, but that she was teaching the spiritual and perfect creation of man and the universe,—man's birthright here and now.

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