Article March 9, 1918 Issue

The report of an address on Christian Science which appeared...

Samuel Greenwood—Victoria, B. C., Canada

The Times

The report of an address on Christian Science which appeared in The Times would make strange reading if one did not consider the many vagaries to which the human mind is subject. The speaker deserves and certainly receives the sympathy of Christian Scientists; first, because he is laboring under the serious disadvantage of not knowing his subject, and secondly, because no person can talk that way about his fellows and be really happy. If Christian Science were what he claims it is, he may be sure that Christian Scientists would be among the first to disown it; but between what Christian Science really is and what he says it is a great gulf is fixed, across which neither his amazing logic nor his baseless insinuations can find a bridge.

It seems to be a hobby with a certain class of preachers, more especially with those who are here to-day and gone to-morrow, to rail at Christian Science and its Discoverer, without being too careful in the trifling matter of verity. These critics have become past masters in the art of building up a fabric of straw, figuratively speaking, which they label Christian Science, and then proceed to show their ability by knocking it down. It might be interesting to state that in spite of the terrible onslaughts on these wonderful straw castles, the Christian Science movement grows with increasing rapidity, the last year having marked the greatest growth in its history.

The speaker stated that any religion that did not accept the authority of the Bible was not a Scriptural religion, and secondly, that any religion which denied the authority of Christ was not a Christian religion. Now as Christian Science accepts them both, the speaker is without a case; and a common practice with self-opinionated critics, when they have no case, is to abuse their opponents.

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