Article November 8, 1913 Issue

Christian Scientists contend that all God's children are...

R. Stanhope Easterday

New Castle (Ind.) Courier

Christian Scientists contend that all God's children are "called to be saints," and they strive to comply with the further Scripture, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," but reasonably base all effort to this end upon the sublime logic of Paul in the words, "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." They find, furthermore, in such legitimate striving for the perfect, that satisfying "communion of saints" which includes among other graces of the spirit a compliance with the divine command, "Take no thought for your life," either before or after the transitional experience called death.

Such legitimate exercise of Christian faith is reasonably devoid of the numerous superstitions, rites, and customs that have characterized religious enthusiasm in the past, and that have ever proven a barrier to that wholesome, spiritual growth "in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," which should characterize every true Christian and render him a "saint" in the true significance of the term.

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