Article July 22, 1916 Issue

Under the caption "Signs of the Times," a clergyman took...

John L. Rendall

Waterloo (Iowa) Courier and Reporter

Under the caption "Signs of the Times," a clergyman took occasion to refer to Christian Science and other religious teachings as "travesties upon the Christian religion."

As a matter of fact each religious teaching must stand or fall, not by what some one else says about it, but because of its own intrinsic value and utility; because of what it may be doing or leaving undone for the betterment of humanity. Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

If this standard is still acceptable as the criterion, then Christian Science is far from being a "travesty" upon religion, for the reason that its fruits are manifold. Its teachings emphasize the highest Christian ideals. By reason of them hundreds of thousands of people have been immeasurably helped and benefited, raised from beds of sickness, and their lives redeemed from sin and despair. Whereas many of them seemed to be without God and without hope in the world, they have found a present savior, and have awakened to the realization that the Christ is the Saviour of the world today as in Jesus' time; also that God's laws are just as operative in the healing of the sick and in the redemption of the sinner at this time as when Jesus proved the certainty of these healing laws on the shores of Galilee.

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