Article June 23, 1917 Issue

The truth about Christian Science is not learned through...

W. Stuart Booth—Brush, Col.

Morgan County Republican

The truth about Christian Science is not learned through criticism or denunciation. Although it is less than forty-two years since the first edition of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," was published by Mrs. Eddy, this new-old teaching has spread around the entire world, and is exerting a vital influence for good in the individual and community life wherever it is known. The fact that many of its adherents have been drawn from other churches, as well as from the ranks of infidelity and atheism, may account somewhat for the unfriendly attitude of some members of the clergy, who seem to have forgotten the advice offered by Gamaliel to the priests who were incensed by the healing and teaching of the disciples. This "doctor of the law" counseled the members of the clergy of that time, "Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God."

Christian Science is simply the restatement of primitive Christianity; its teachings are in complete accord with those of the Master, and its practice is the fulfilment of his promise, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." It is significant that when Jesus was inquired of by John the Baptist if he were the Messiah, his healings were referred to even more than his teaching, for Jesus realized that since all true teaching must be susceptible of proof, such evidence would be of more value to John than mere argument or assertion.

The statement that there is nothing in Christian Science, no matter how often or how vehemently repeated, falls flat in the face of its accomplished Christian works, for by it not only are the sick healed and the sorrowing comforted, but men are freed from evil habits, sinners are reformed, and a broader, truer sense of love and justice is brought out in daily living. Our Master, when furnishing a gage by which to measure Christian discipleship, spoke not of creeds or doctrinal dogmas, but said simply, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

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