Article March 3, 1917 Issue

It seems that an evangelist in his revival meetings took...

Thomas F. Watson

Selma (Cal.) Irrigator

It seems that an evangelist in his revival meetings took occasion to criticize Christian Science, declaring that it "denies God, dishonors Christ, and disbelieves the Bible." Yet the throngs who attend the Christian Science services week after week the whole year through will never hear one word against any other church, religion, or preacher. Christian Scientists are too busy studying their Bibles, healingthe sick, and seeking to cast sin out of themselves and others even to watch their neighbors. In a word, they are kept so busy casting the "beam" out of their own eyes that they have no time to attend to the "mote" in the eyes of their neighbors. To all who are seeking to turn the thoughts of mankind toward God and His Christ, Christian Science bids a hearty Godspeed.

Jesus made works rather than words a proof of his doctrine. When the disciples of John came asking, "Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?" he did not preach a sermon on the shortcomings of other religious sects, but pointed to the healing works which he had performed, saying: "Go your way, and tell John ... how that the blind see, the lame walk," and so on, pointing to his works as a test of his Messiahship. So Christian Science is willing to stand on its merits and to be judged by its works, for through its ministrations many thousands have been healed of disease, of the drug habit, the liquor habit, insanity; in fact, all the ills to which flesh is supposed to be heir have been healed by this Science, for it teaches one to understand and avail himself of the law of God, which St. Paul taught makes us "free from the law of sin and death." It can be proved to any unprejudiced person that Christian Science acknowledges God and His omnipotence, honors Christ Jesus and obeys his precepts, and teaches its followers not only to believe but to understand the Word of God sufficiently to demonstrate it.

Christian Science is the restoration of primitive Christianity, and is based on the Bible, especially the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. Its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, so illumines the Scriptures that many thousands who were strangers to its teachings before studying this Science have become earnest students of the Bible. The second tenet of Christian Science, to which all its church members subscribe, is as follows: "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness" (Science and Health, p. 497). Christian Science, far from dishonoring the Christ, as the critic charges, honors him in the way which he appointed, namely, by following in his footsteps.

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