Article August 21, 1915 Issue

A recent issue, reporting the sermon of an evangelist holding...

W. D. Kilpatrick

Pontiac (Mich.) Press Gazette

A recent issue, reporting the sermon of an evangelist holding meetings in your city, contains a brief reference to Christian Science which may be misleading to your readers, and concerning which I should like to make a correction.

Christian Science is a religion based on the teachings of the Bible and on the words and works of Jesus, and is held by Christian Scientists to be in strict accord with the spiritual interpretation of the Bible at every point. Crities are pleased to offer divers and sundry tests of their own creating, whereby they would like to have Christian Science judged; but the test imposed by Jesus is probably as safe and reliable as any that could be applied to religion, and is one which Christian Scientists are very glad to have applied to them.

Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them," and further, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do." Then in the sixteenth chapter of Mark he gives us a brief outline of what these by which we are to be judged consist. He says: "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." These are the real tests whereby any religion should be judged, and they are the tests by which Christian Scientists are pleased to have their religion compared with that of other religious denominations or systems.

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