Article January 12, 1918 Issue

Apparently our critic is not familiar with the tenets of...

Rose A. Lilly

Albion (Mich.) Recorder

Apparently our critic is not familiar with the tenets of the Christian Science church as given on page 497 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, or he would not have made the statement that "Christian Science presents a theory by which the evils of a sin-cursed earth are done away with without a Savior." One of these tenets reads as follows: "We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death."

The claim of the gentleman that Christian Science is a revival of the doctrines of spiritualism and pantheism is not unlike the accusation of the Pharisees that Jesus cast out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils, and indicates either a willful desire to misrepresent or gross ignorance of the subject on which he undertakes to enlighten his hearers. That Christian Science is the selfsame truth taught and demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth over nineteen centuries ago is proved by the fact that it is in large measure accomplishing, in the manner he directed, the works that he did and commanded his followers to do,—destroying sin, healing the sick, comforting those that mourn, bringing to humanity the world over relief from all its suffering, poverty, want, and woe. In answer to the inquiry from John the Baptist, "Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?" Jesus simply said, "Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached." And so to-day Christian Science points to its work in proof of its divine authority.

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