Article July 15, 1916 Issue

One of the first protests which Christian Scientists will...

Thorwald Siegfried

Wenatchee (Wash.) World

One of the first protests which Christian Scientists will enter against our critic's methods is based on his use of the title "evangelist" to cloak an attack on followers of Christ Jesus, to whose teachings he also vows allegiance. The word evangelist means a bearer of good news, and if this cleric's statements are true then his title is a misnomer. Thousands upon thousands of people are finding health and happiness in Christian Science. Christian Scientists are not forsaking, but rather following, Bible precept and practice, and what alarms our critic is cause for great rejoicing.

Christian Scientists will bear witness to the statement which this critic quotes from page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." In the study of Christian Science the Bible becomes indeed "the chart of life, where the buoys and healing currents of Truth are pointed out" (Science and Health, p. 24). In revealing the everlasting ministry of Love, as recorded in the Bible, Christian Science has opened to its many adherents what has been too long a closed, misunderstood book.

When he comes to consider man, this evangelist spurns Mrs. Eddy's characterization of man on page 69 of Science and Health as "not of the earth earthly but coexistent with God," and contends for the reality of a material man formed "of the dust of the ground" by Jehovah, as recorded in Gen. ii. 7, in preference to the spiritual man created in the image and likeness of God, Elohim, as recorded in Gen. i. 27. It would require a curious answer indeed to reconcile such a concept of man with the statement in the twelfth chapter of Romans, "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every on members one of another."

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