Article January 25, 1913 Issue

A review in the Sunday News of "A Life of Jesus," by...

Elizabeth T. Bell—Charleston, S. C.

News and Courier

A review in the Sunday News of "A Life of Jesus," by Major S. H. M. Byers, after repudiating the book as incorrect in historical statement and false in its teaching, suggests that the author may be a Christian Scientist. Why guess at his religion? Why not let him decide for himself what he really is? We know neither the book nor the author, but we do know that Christian Science demands exactness in action, speech, and thought, and careless or suppositional statements such as this book is said to contain have no place in its work. We heartily agree that "the best 'Life of Our Lord' is to be found in the four gospels." In quoting the Christian Science text-book, we find these statements: "The term Christ Jesus, or Jesus the Christ (to give the full and proper translation of the Greek), may be rendered 'Jesus the anointed,' Jesus the God-crowned or the divinely royal man." Again: "The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spirit. He presented the same body that he had before his crucifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind over matter" (Science and Health, pp. 313, 45). Christian Science has nothing whatever in common with spiritualism. Such mistaken conceptions of religious teachings emphasize the fact that when criticizing another's statements we should be sure of the correctness of our own.

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