Article October 6, 1917 Issue

Permit me to say through your columns, in reply to a...

William D. Kilpatrick in

Maple Rapids (Mich.) Dispatch

Permit me to say through your columns, in reply to a statement made in a local pulpit concerning Christian Science, that Christian Science is most distinctly not "superstition." If Christian Science were based on superstition, or even partially so, it would have been a thing of the past long ago. One of the most common charges against the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth was that they were based on superstition, and he was accused of accomplishing his healing work through Beelzebub, alias hypnotism, mesmerism, superstition, and the like. Christian Science is answering this form of criticism in exactly the same way that Jesus did, namely, by proof. Superstition can never be proven, while Christian Science is proving itself daily and hourly through the healing of the sick, the reclaiming of the sinner, the overcoming of misery, unhappiness, poverty, and all the ills to which mankind are subject.

Christian Science is proving itself to be true by proving the Bible true, and it is the only religion today that offers the world proof in place of preachments that Bible teachings are divine and scientific. One who is not capable of following the command of the Master by scientifically and metaphysically healing the sick and casting out sin has little excuse for attempting criticism of a religion so demonstrating its divine purpose. Every disease known to mankind has been healed through Christian Science; sin of every name and nature is being reduced; misery, unhappiness poverty, and so on, are being gradually overcome, and in their places are being planted the seeds of health, happiness, purity, hope, and plenty.

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