Article October 13, 1917 Issue

An article in an issue of the Nordisk Tidende illustrates...

Judge Clifford P. Smith in—Brooklyn, N. Y.

Nordisk Tidende

An article in an issue of the Nordisk Tidende illustrates the contradictory nature of the opposition to Christian Science. In this instance the critic said, "It is to no purpose to say that medical treatment was of no benefit in this or that case;" yet he himself offered this very argument against Christian Science. In fact, this religion has been proved to be not only safer but more reliable than material medicine as a cure for disease. Moreover, it is a remedy and the Christian remedy for both disease and sin. This has been proved in the lives of unnumbered thousands who are now its adherents.

When this critic said that the Christian Science movement is an outcome of people's bias against science, he betrayed an ignorance of both the teaching and the history of Christian Science. The facts are that this religion is the direct outcome of original Christianity. It is the "Spirit of truth" which Christ Jesus foretold and promised. Christian Science is related to original Christianity as original Christianity was related to Judaism. The later religion grew out of the earlier, and became its fulfillment.

The woeful fear expressed by this critic that the general adoption of Christian Science would mean the loss of the medical knowledge which has accumulated for ages, is the same kind of fear that has been expressed whenever a better way of doing anything has been discovered. The knowledge of how to do things by manual labor has accumulated for ages, but this is no reason why mechanical discoveries should not be adopted. Even the fear that the adoption of machinery would mean a loss to laborers has proved to be groundless. The very men whose labor was displaced by the machinery learned to use it, and were benefited by its adoption. In like manner, the general adoption of Christian Science will be of universal benefit, and in the end it will be seen that no person and no legitimate interest will be harmed by it.

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