Article April 4, 1914 Issue

In a recent issue is an account of a talk by a clergyman at...

R. C. Love

Shreveport (La.) Times

In a recent issue is an account of a talk by a clergyman at a Bible conference, in the course of which talk he takes occasion to express his opinion of Christian Science. If one understands a subject, he can demonstrate its rule; but failing in this, he should not find fault with those who are demonstrating it. Christian Science means right living and right doing, and as the thought is father to the act, it follows that a man must necessarily think right in order to act right. If our clerical critic is doing this, he is to this extent a Christian Scientist.

When it is alleged that the teaching of Christian Science is "a foe to the home" and that "it locks its heart against suffering humanity," we are forced to ask where our critic has found justification for his contention. Is it possible that a religion which has had the largest growth of any movement of modern times, whose members are numbered among the world's best citizens, and whose history has been that its churches are soon outgrown and larger ones become necessary to accommodate those who crowd its pews in search of its message of healing,—is it possible that such a religion can be a detriment to mankind?

Some expression of the public thought in this connection is afforded by the following extract from an editorial which appeared in a paper recently: "Our lives are no longer measured by our own individual standards; we look beyond our own cramped environments and try to see others as they see themselves, and not as they appear to our narrow and often selfish vision. The sincerity of the Christian Scientist is not to be questioned. The Scientists are entitled to their belief; they are entitled to the happiness and comfort it gives them, and it is a notable sign of the advance of civilization that those who disagree, dogmatically or otherwise, with the Christian Scientists, are unwilling to interfere with the development of the church."

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