Article April 12, 1913 Issue

In the Gereformeerde Kerkbode I read the articles by...

Marie Hartman—The Hague, Holland.

Gereformeerde Kerkbode

In the Gereformeerde Kerkbode I read the articles by V. d. L., and as I am convinced that the writer supposes he has good reasonf for condemning Christian Science, I hope the editor of said paper will kindly allow me to correct some of his objections. The writer says: "Christian Science does not teach the existence of God in the way the Scriptures teach this point." Now, the second tenet of Christian Science reads: "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God" (Science and Health, p. 497). On page 587 of this book, Mrs. Eddy gives the following definitions of God, which are all based on the Bible: "God. The gerat I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."

Christian Science deeply reveres the teachings of Jesus, and holds that a Christian ought to obey all the commandments of the Saviour. Nowhere in the Bible is it found that after a few centuries the signs would cease which Jesus said should follow true faith; therefore these signs are the proofs that the faith is real. Not a single place can be found in the Bible where Jesus speaks of these works as a monopoly by himself or by his disciples, but he said: "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Christian Science considers this saving truth, the true understanding of God the Father, and of His relation to His creation, as the "Spirit of truth" that comes to all and will guide all into the truth. This understanding of the Christ brings infinite blessings, because it enables mankind to obey God better, and therby to accept more and more all the good God bestows.

Christian Science teaches that the saving and healing Christ was more than the personality of the man Jesus; it was his understanding of God, and this recalls his answer to those who reject this definition: "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." Christian Science admits that sin, sickness, and death are indissolubly united, and that sickness will not disappear from the world until mankind learns to understand the acceptance of Jesus' atonement must reveal itself in a holier and purer life, not only after the death of the body but now. The overcoming of sin, which in the last instance is always "wrong thinking," is not reached by only saying to oneself, "I shall stop sinning," but by accepting the salvation from all sin, all false beliefs, which Jesus revealed and which makes man conscious of his oneness with God. This consciousness brings deliverance from evil, and teaches mankind more and more to walk in "newness of life."

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