Article November 8, 1913 Issue

A recent sermon by one of the good brethren of an orthodox...

Charles K. Skinner

Detroit (Mich.) Free Press

A recent sermon by one of the good brethren of an orthodox church tells us that "if the church of today were more spiritually alive, Christian Science would decline; when faith in prayer is rekindled, and the Sermon on the Mount is applied to business and politics, the bottom will fall out of these side issues and the church will return to its own." The speaker paid a tribute to Christian Science which is appreciated, but it is well to remember that all down the ages, when a pressing need came for reform on any particular line, the supply was forthcoming. In the present instance, Christian Science has come not to glorify any individual or any sect of followers, but to teach all people that the Sermon on the Mount is just as applicable in our relations with our fellow men today as it was nineteen hundred years ago. Christian Science proves that the wretched and cowardly assertions of some men that "it is impossible to succeed and do an honest business today," are without foundation in fact.

The sincere and honest study of Christian Science has but one result, namely, a greater and more earnest desire for a spiritual understanding of the Scriptures and their application to daily life as exemplified by the Master. His words were clear-cut and to the point: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you," and this he said from pure demonstration in his own beautiful life. Of this life Mrs. Eddy speaks as follows, in Science and Health (p. 18): "He [Jesus] did life's work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility." No religious teaching has proved a greater power as an instrument for reformation from sin and its awful results than has Christian Science in the brief period since its teaching was first given to the world.

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