Article November 29, 1913 Issue

A recent issue of The Evening Times contains mention of...

John L. Rendall—Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The Evening Times

A recent issue of The Evening Times contains mention of the sermon on Christian Science by the Rev. J. W. McComas at the "tent meeting." The admonition to his audience to take the Bible for their guide and to be not led away by "every wind of doctrine," is sound advice, and is exactly what Christian Scientists are doing. The Bible teaches certain things of a positive nature, among which is the doctrine of Christian healing. Taking the Bible for our guide, must necessarily mean taking it in its completeness and making intelligent application of its teachings. Thus it is that Christian Scientists, intelligently discerning that Jesus' mission was one of complete salvation for humanity,—not only from sin, but from every phase of error, including sickness,—endeavor to emulate his example in all that it includes.

There is urgent need of salvation from sin, and there is also urgent need of salvation from sickness and disease. Salvation is not a physical something where sin is overcome, neither is it a physical something where Christian healing overcomes sickness. Salvation is always a mental process, that transformation of the body by the renewing of the mind of which St. Paul speaks. Therefore, when through the teachings of Christian Science thousands of people begin to prove for themselves the verity of Jesus' words, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover," etc., it cannot truthfully be said of them that they are being led away by "every wind of doctrine," but rather are they being led into that way whereof the wise man said, "In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death."

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