Article March 22, 1913 Issue

Judging from the remarks of a traveling evangelist at...

Frank Bell

New Castle (Pa.) News

Judging from the remarks of a traveling evangelist at Columbus, Ohio, as quoted in a recent issue, the most charitable assumption would be that he does not know what Christian Science is. No one who really understood the subject could honestly entertain the views he expresses. Considerable experience with attacks of this nature has convinced the writer that their vehemence is in proportion to the misapprehension back of them. We are aware that some persons still entertain weird and grotesque notions about Christian Science, and, so believing, are prone to condemn. Their criticism would be unobjectionable were it everywhere understood as not in fact being aimed at Christian Science.

Briefly, the teaching of Christian Science is that God, Spirit, is the real and only Life of man; therefore, he whose daily thought, word, and deed express the most good, the most godlikeness, is manifesting the best manhood, which is only another term for the best Christianity. If one's word and deed are to be right, one's thought must first be right, and Christian Science is contributing immeasurably to the universal upward trend by presenting a reasonable, rational, and scientific method by which otherwise unruly thinking may be directed into right channels. Christian Science gives assurance not only that the human mind may be made subject to the divine, but that purity and goodness in thought will be manifested in health, happiness, and peace. In other words, it offers to prove itself with "signs following," as Christianity was first offered to the world, which then as now was not wholly oblivious to the idea that genuine religion should be capable of demonstration.

The great growth of Christian Science is due to the fact that its promise to make mankind better spiritually, morally, physically, in every way, is being proved true in countless instances the world over. Surely nothing in all this calls for public denunciation.

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