Article April 25, 1914 Issue

In a recent issue a writer inadvertently quotes some one...

Frank C. Barrett

Lewiston (Me.) Journal

In a recent issue a writer inadvertently quotes some one as saying that men have gone mad "on religious errors, such as millennial dawn, Christian Science, spiritism, annihilation, etc." Christian Science cannot be included among the religious errors mentioned, because it is the antipode of those beliefs. Furthermore, true religion has never made any one mad, but on the contrary, as taught and practised by the Master, it restored men so that they became clothed, and in their right mind. Christian Science is repeating the works of Jesus and his disciples in our midst today; and while I am personally acquainted with several people who were once insane from one cause or another, but who are now well and sane through Christian Science treatment, I have never heard of any one's being made insane by Christian Science.

It is a proven fact that an understanding of Christian Science can do only good, and any failure to obtain the good results of which it is capable could be due only to a lack of understanding on the part of the student. Jesus' disciples once failed to do what he accomplished. When they asked him why they had failed, he said it was because of their "unbelief," plainly implying that if they had had his understanding of God, his Father, they too could have done the same works. Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them," which is the only test of religious teaching and practice he required, and it is as safe an indication of the truth or falsity of religious tenets today as it was nineteen centuries ago.

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