Article March 18, 1916 Issue

It is a long time since we read anything so palpably weak...

Duncan Sinclair—Scotland

Paisley and Renfrewshire Gazette

It is a long time since we read anything so palpably weak and misleading in the nature of a criticism of Christian Science as that published in a late Gazette. Not one quotation purporting to be taken by our critic from Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is accurate. Bits of the book, which has to be read as a whole to be intelligently comprehended, are either misquoted or torn from their contexts. Indeed, we utterly fail to identify this school of criticism. Surely it cannot be a product of these modern days, when truth is supposed to be preferred to dogma and righteousness to creed. This critic assures your readers that many Christian Scientists are "respectable, intellectual, and honest members of society." It matters very little what is said about another; what really is of concern is the understanding of good which a man possesses, for that defines the honorableness of his position in society.

Christian Science is not "unchristian, antichristian, or contradictory and absurd." What is it to be Christian? To be Christian is to be like Jesus the Christ, the Founder of Christianity. To be like Christ Jesus is to think like him and to act like him. It is generally admitted by Christians that the Master knew more about God, "the Father," than any other who has lived on earth, and that because of this knowledge he was the purest and the best of men. Christian Science teaches that God is Truth, Life, and Love, so that the Nazarene owed his power to his spiritual understanding of Truth, Life, and Love. It was this spiritual understanding of God which enabled him to heal disease of all kinds and to forgive or destroy sin in the human consciousness.

Christian Scientists are endeavoring to obey the commands of Jesus by healing sickness and sin as he did; and they know well that this is possible just in the proportion that they possess "the mind of Christ," possess the same understanding of Truth that he did.

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