Article January 31, 1914 Issue

The attacks made by Dr. Biederwolf upon Christian Science...

Edmunds Travis

The Austin (Texas) Tribune

The attacks made by Dr. Biederwolf upon Christian Science have unpleasantly surprised local Scientists, who, with other Christians, looked for many good results from the evangelistic meetings. The doctor would hardly dare attack the Methodist, Presbyterian, or Baptist doctrine, yet these are no more Christian than the creed of the Scientists. His latest attack, made upon Mrs. Eddy's declaration that "man is incapable of sin" (Science and Health, p. 475), is, like all that he has said, entirely undeserved. Mrs. Eddy had reference, as every Christian Scientist knows, to the spiritual man, the real image of God, that must necessarily reflect God, and therefore cannot sin. The evangelist's apparent acceptance of the statement that the "soul that sinneth, it shall die," if he takes this to mean that the Spirit, the divine man, perishes, does away not only with the doctrine of future punishment, but also with the doctrine of immortality.

Christian Scientists do not ask the doctor to believe as they believe, but they do ask and had expected of him a more tolerant attitude toward a faith founded, as his own is, on the Word of God.

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