Article November 29, 1913 Issue

In a recent sermon a clergyman of an orthodox church...

Charles K. Skinner

Detroit (Mich.) Free Press

In a recent sermon a clergyman of an orthodox church declares that if the church of today were more spiritually alive, Christian Science would decline. He says, "When faith in prayer is rekindled and the Sermon on the Mount 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 has come for reform on any particular line, the supply has been 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 the business with our fellow man today as it was nineteen hundred years ago; to teach them that the wretched and cowardly assertion of some men that "it is impossible to succeed and do an honest business today," is as false as the other lies that an evil mind would have us believe.

The sincere and honest study of Christian Science has but one result, viz., 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 on page 18 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "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 relatively short period since its discovery.

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