Article January 31, 1914 Issue

A report from Sayre of the sermon of Dr. Stough, published...

H. Cornell Wilson—Elmira, N. Y.

The Star-Gazette

A report from Sayre of the sermon of Dr. Stough, published in The Star-Gazette, quotes this gentleman as saying, "I hate Christian Science; I detest anything that will minimize the enormity of sin and its punishment."

I venture to say that every reader of Star-Gazette who is familiar with the teachings of Christian Science, and even those readers who know Christian Science only through witnessing its fruits, will agree with me that our critic does not "hate Christian Science" at all. He "hates" only his own misconception of it. Nothing less than a complete misunderstanding of Christian Science could induce this minister to say that Christian Science "takes away man's sense of sin and tells him he is not so bad as he is." If this were its teaching, Christian Science would long ago have ceased to be a factor in the religious and moral activities of our time. What we see, however, is that Christian Science has been so successfully overcoming and destroying sin and its accompanying results, sickness, disease, and sorrow, that the movement has attained a position as one of the remarkable religious developments of the centuries.

Christian Science brings deliverance from sin. It reveals sin's unreal nature and origin, and turns the individual from it with loathing. Phases of sin heretofore deemed incurable have been found to yield their vaunted dominion through Christian Science. Every Wednesday evening testimonies may be heard, the world over, in fifteen hundred Christian Science meetings, expressing gratitude to God for redemption through Christian Science from the hold of sin in one of its myriad forms. Christian Scientists, without exception, are able to state that they are improved morally and spiritually, even as they have been benefited physically, by Christian Science. Moreover, this is a fact to which the friends and acquaintances of Christian Scientists can bear witness.

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