Article March 18, 1916 Issue

Every Christian Scientist welcomes an honest investigation,...

Daniel M. Ely

Basil (Ohio) Record

Every Christian Scientist welcomes an honest investigation, for it will prove to the satisfaction of any earnest seeker that Christian Science is founded on the teachings of Jesus. The critic's use of references from Mrs. Eddy's writings which are separated from the context is unfair, and only serves to show the injustice of basing an argument upon detached sentences when the full context would bring out the standpoint of the author.

The teachings of Christian Science are clearly set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and these teachings are based not only on the words of Jesus but on his works as well,—works which he said his followers should do also. This Science teaches that God is Life, Truth, Love, Spirit, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent; that man is the image and likeness of God, and therefore is spiritual and not material. It is to the spiritual man that Mrs. Eddy refers when she says that man is incapable of sin, and not to the material and mortal man, the man that is "born of a woman" who, as Job declared, "is of few days, and full of trouble." Jesus referred to the material man in these words: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." It is this material man who, as Paul says, is governed by the "carnal mind," which "is enmity against God."

Christian Science teaches that we pay to the utmost farthing for every sin; that we can only escape from sin and suffering through Christ, "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" (Science and Health, p. 583); and that sin is never forgiven or its penalty removed until forsaken. If the world would accept the standard of marriage as set forth in the wonderful chapter on Marriage in Science and Health, divorce would be unknown, and future generations would express better health and higher morals. On page 60 we read, "Marriage should improve the human species, becoming a barrier against vice, a protection to woman, strength to man, and a center for the affections."

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