Article January 31, 1920 ISSUE

From an article in the News recently, it appears that a...

John M. Dean

Chattanooga (Tenn.) News

From an article in the News recently, it appears that a lady critic has vigorously attacked her erroneous concept of Christian Science, while indulging the belief that she was attacking the real thing. Setting up a man of straw and labeling it "Christian Science," she proceeds to tear it down, which would be a right and proper thing to do if Christian Science taught some of the things which she charges against it. The main trouble with critics of this kind is that they arrogate to themselves greater wisdom or greater honesty than the many thousands of Christian Scientists who are perhaps just as capable and just as honest as the average critic.

The difficulty lies in the fact that so-called orthodox religions attempt to interpret Scripture from both a spiritual and a material basis, while Christian Science squares everything from the spiritual basis only.

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