Article June 15, 1918 Issue

"Elizabeth," writing in the Times under the caption...

John M. Tutt

St. Louis (Mo.) Times

"Elizabeth," writing in the Times under the caption "Christian Science a Misnomer," dismisses the remarkable progress of the Christian Science movement with the line "weeds grow fast." She would do well to remember that some of our most useful plants were formerly considered valueless, if not noxious. Because of the bias of medical and theological education, the writer was for many years deprived of the benefits of Christian Science. When his eyes finally were opened to the truth about Christian Science, and thereby he found health and spiritual awakening he had never known in the old ways of medicine and theology, he then discovered that the growth of Christian Science is due entirely to the fact that it "meets the heart's great need," as no other system has met it.

What can this critic mean by the assertion that Christian Science deifies man? It is the orthodox theology and not Christian Science which does that. Christ's coming "in the flesh" did not make the Christ "an incarnation of error," neither did it make the flesh a spiritual reality. But the orthodox belief that the flesh was very God does result in "an incarnation of error." Paul says that Jesus was made sin "for us," and sin is undoubtedly error. Christ Jesus proved by his "triumphant exit from the flesh" (Science and Health, p. 117) that fleshly error profiteth nothing; for he thus showed matter to be no part of the real man.

Christian Science is Christian, because it is the revival of the teaching and practice of Christ Jesus. The above illustrates its completer consistency with the teaching of the Master, for Jesus himself many times denied that he was God; he insisted that he was the Son of God.

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