Article May 19, 1917 Issue

Our critic contends that because Christian Scientists have...

F. Elmo Robinson—Klamath Falls. Ore.

Klamath Record

Our critic contends that because Christian Scientists have not demonstrated the ultimate possibilities of their religion, Christian Science is thereby proved false. It should be remembered that everything taught in Christian Science was demonstrated by Christ Jesus nineteen hundred years ago, and it is upon his teachings and demonstrations that Christian Science is founded. He overcame sin, disease, and death, proving them to be as unreal as the mirage of the desert. Where sin and disease seemed very real to mortal sense, he was able to make holiness and health appear. Where death seemed to have swallowed up life in victory, there he revealed the ever present Life. He demonstrated the supremacy of spiritual law and the nothingness of material law when he turned the water into wine, multiplied the loaves and fishes, and walked on the water; and he is our ensample in Christian Science.

Christian Science, in proclaiming the allness of God and the perfection and immutability of His creation, is setting forth what must ultimately be recognized and acknowledged by all. In the mean time, Christian Scientists, well aware of the present incompleteness of their demonstration of the spiritual ultimate, are not ignoring the fact that to erring, finite sense matter, sin, disease, and death seem very real. They are earnestly striving, however, to uplift thought to the discernment of the spiritual reality, to the end that the kingdom of heaven, harmony, may be established among men.

When all people fully realize and demonstrate the allness of God; when He is acknowledged as the only presence, power, and influence in their lives; when evil in all its subtlety is uncovered; when its claim to give pleasure and satisfaction is seen to be absolutely false,—because God, and God alone, satisfies,—they will cease to love sin or indulge it, and it will disappear out of their experiences. Christian Science teaches that sin comes to the human consciousness first in the form of suggestion,—a suggestion that a certain course of thought or action will give pleasure or satisfaction. Now, if the individual instantly recognized this suggestion merely as such, knowing that it had no inherent power to give what it promised, he would not invest it with the power by believing it and acting in accord with it. Only that individual, however, who has come to understand in some degree the allness of God, is prepared to defend himself from this aggressive suggestion. So Christian Science is teaching us to acknowledge God in all our ways, to glorify Him in our thinking, and to lift up His Christ.

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