Article February 10, 1917 Issue

It is not our purpose to defend Christian Science in this...

Sherman (Texas) Courier

It is not our purpose to defend Christian Science in this editorial. Christian Science needs no defense from us, neither can Christian Science be traduced or the "bottom knocked out of it" by any single-handed preacher, newspaper, or anybody else. Christian Science of its own momentum has in a very brief period carried itself around the world. There are today Christian Science churches in every civilized country on this globe, and its followers and adherents are more than a million people, among whom are many of the strongest, best, and most influential men and women in the world. Many of the best citizens in Sherman know that Christian Science makes better men and women out of those who follow its teachings than they were before they began the study of Christian Science, and among the people who know this fact are many good men and women who are not members of the Christian Science church and do not subscribe to its tenets. For any man to come into this community, posing as a Christian minister, and assail any body of people who are trying as best they know how to follow the same Christ, or teachings, that he professes to follow, is thereby to lower himself in the minds of many good people, and in our judgment he does no credit either to the works or teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

Now just a word to the public in conclusion. If you wanted to learn about mathematics, would you go to a man who "read" an arithmetic and who was traveling over the country in some other line of work, or would you go to a mathematician,—a man who had studied and mastered an was able to demonstrate mathematics? Or, if you wanted to learn about music, would you come to the Courier office and hear the noise and rattle of our presses and listen to our talk, or would you go to a master musician? The proper place to learn the facts about Christian Science is from the Christian Science text-book, just as you would go to the text-books on mathematics or music to learn of them.

Christian Science purports to be the Science of life, the Science or truth about man's relation to his creator, God. It purports to reform the sinner and heal the sick, and to be the same thing that Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated. It may not be or do that, but inasmuch as it today carries a world wide interest and relates to a matter of such vital importance to you and to the world, you cannot afford to take the word of any preacher or any newspaper man or anybody else about it, but the thing to do is to investigate for yourself. If Mr.—'s attack on Christian Science shall result in even one individual's investigating Christian Science for himself and finding out the facts, let the facts be what they may, then his attack will not have been without good results.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial

"Suffer it to be so now"