Article April 15, 1916 Issue

In an account of a sermon appears the following statement:...

Henry Van Arsdale

Whittier (Cal.) News

In an account of a sermon appears the following statement: "In no country has religion been accompanied by so many remarkable wonders as in the United States. Modern spiritualism, Christian Science, Dowieism, theosophy, and the newer Emmanuel movement, practically all originated in this country; and all these have been accompanied by more or less of wonder-working manifestations." The inference indirectly drawn in this statement regarding Christian Science is, that it is similar in its origin and essentials to the other systems named. I desire to correct this, for Christian Science has a place entirely by itself, in that it is founded solely upon the Bible and is successfully restoring primitive Christianity to the world.

The works that Christian Science is doing in the way of reforming the sinner, healing the sick person, comforting the sorrowing, and removing the limitations of poverty and habit, are "wonder-working manifestations" only to the thought of those who, like the author of the sermon above referred to, do not understand that such manifestations are the natural results of the understanding of God which is to be obtained through the study of Christian Science.

In the wonderful fourteenth chapter of his gospel, John reports Jesus as saying to his followers in all time, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." Again, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." In the sixteenth chapter of the gospel according to Mark, the seventeenth and eighteenth verses set up a standard by which one may be known as a believer in the Christ, that is, known as a Christian. Here what the author of the sermon refers to as "wonder-working manifestations" are seen to be the natural results of the Christian's belief in or absolute reliance upon God the Father.

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