Article October 18, 1913 Issue

Two correspondents, whose opinions are unfavorable to...

John W. Harwood—Manchester, England

City News

Two correspondents, whose opinions are unfavorable to Christian Science, are united in stating that Christian Science is "neither Christian nor scientific." Now, Jesus made the healing of sin and sickness, of all that is unlike God, the test of Christianity. Those who claimed to be his followers, and yet did not obey his commands, were sternly rebuked in the words, "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"

The good works being done by Christian Science in all parts of the world are the best proofs which can be given that Christian Scientists are striving earnestly to follow the Master in all his ways, and justify the claim to the term Christian as indicating the method by which these works are wrought. Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "If God, the All-in-all, be the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, then everything entitled to a classification as truth, or Science, must be comprised in a knowledge or understanding of God, for there can be nothing beyond illimitable divinity" (p. 127). A knowledge of God is essentially true Science, and Christian Science reveals the true idea of God as divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind, and its teaching is being demonstrated, and the signs which Jesus said should follow are being made manifest. Therefore that which is reiterating Jesus' teaching and healing the sick, in proof of its correctness, is surely entitled to its full name, Christian Science.

One of these correspondents refers to several passages in the Scriptures, every one of which may be quoted in support of Christian Science. The warning of St. Paul to Timothy, to beware of science falsely so called, is just the warning repeated in Christian Science regarding so-called physical science, which is based on a false hypothesis of matter being real and its own law-giver. Jesus annulled all the so-called laws of matter, thus proving physical science to be falsely so called, by walking on the water, raising the dead, stilling the tempest, and this proved him to be, as Mrs. Eddy says, "the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" (Science and Health, p. 313).

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