Article October 6, 1917 Issue

Notwithstanding the statement of the critic quoted in...

Samuel Greenwood in—Vancouver, B. C., Canada

The Sun

Notwithstanding the statement of the critic quoted in your column, Christian Science does not in any sense deny "the authority of Jesus Christ," as even a cursory examination of its literature would readily disclose. "The authority of Jesus Christ" is a term broad enough to include not only the acceptance of all that the Master taught, but the doing of what he said his followers should do.

Now Christian Science accepts this "authority" so fully as to consider Jesus' command to heal the sick as binding upon the Christians of the first century. We have no authority to separate it from his command to preach the gospel; and only a sense of spiritual impotence would seek to evade this command by placing the responsibility on the shoulders of the medical profession. Until this critic accepts "the authority of Jesus Christ" as unreservedly as do Christian Scientists, he is in a lamentably poor position to question their attitude on that point.

The charge that Christians do not regard the Bible as "the revealed word of God," is another fallacy that a slight knowledge of Christian Science would dissipate forever. Mrs. Eddy's writings abound with passages sustaining the sacred character of the Scriptures, and emphasizing her acceptance of their teachings. On page 126 of Science and Health she writes: "The Bible has been my only authority. I have had no other guide in 'the straight and narrow way' of Truth."

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