Article July 13, 1912 Issue

At a local church recently the clergyman, in his review...

Ursula E. Haydon

Hobart (Okla.) Republican

At a local church recently the clergyman, in his review of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," showed clearly that he had entirely failed to grasp the great spiritual import of her teachings, and yet he presumed to take the unreasonable position that because he saw nothing in it there is really nothing in it to be seen. Now, if Christian Science was what he conceives it to be, no others would be louder in their denunciation of it than Christian Scientists themselves. The fact that Christian Scientists have found in Mrs. Eddy's teachings what he failed to find, a logical and demonstrable religion which has sweetened their lives and, in the words of Isaiah, has given to them "beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness," a religion of love and good works,—this is their sufficient reason for their faith.

Our critic acknowledged he had failed to see what Mrs. Eddy teaches, that God is; then he proceeds to make the charge that her teachings are not orthodox. Webster gives this definition of orthodoxy: "Soundness of faith, a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures." Now, how are we going to know whose faith is sound, whose belief is genuine?

In the sixteenth chapter of Mark's gospel, beginning at the fifteenth verse, we read, "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. ... And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

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