Article May 1, 1915 Issue

In Pastor—'s sermon recently reported in the Tribune,...

Charles E. Jarvis

Los Angeles (Cal.) Tribune

In Pastor—'s sermon recently reported in the Tribune, the gentleman referred to Christian Science as a "confusing teaching" containing "fragments of truth and masses of error,—brought forward by the adversary with a view to leading people away from the truth." All of this has a familiar ring to it. In fact, it sounds very much like a passage in the Bible, wherein it is recounted that those who failed to comprehend the words or works of Jesus, accused him of accomplishing his results by the aid of Beelzebub, the prince of devils. This opposition, however, did not hinder our Master's progress, nor were the utterances of the Pharisees taken very seriously by those who had been healed, through Jesus' spiritual understanding, of blindness, lameness, deformity, and "divers diseases and torments."

Just so it is in the practical age in which we live today. The world is demanding results in every line of activity, and judging from the growth of the Christian Science movement during the past four decades, its followers have, in a degree at least, measured up to the test of a Christian established by Jesus in these words: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do." Instead of a "confusing teaching," Christian Science has in numberless instances proved to be the pathway from mental and moral confusion to the liberty of "the sons of God." Until its critics can present similar demonstrable proof of their doctrines, it might be well for them to consider these lines of a familiar hymn:—

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