Article March 13, 1920 Issue

Ignoring the example of the Master, a pastor, according...

Aaron E. Brandt—Kittanning, Pa.

Simpson's Leader

Ignoring the example of the Master, a pastor, according to a recent issue of the Leader, preached a sermon consisting mostly of misrepresentations regarding the religion known as Christian Science. He referred to it as a fraud and a counterfeit.

Permit me to say in reply that Christian Science organizations now number more than eighteen hundred; that among their memberships and adherents are some of the most intelligent people of the world, including editors, judges, lawyers, physicians, and clergymen. Instead of a fraud and a counterfeit they find it to be an interpretation of the Scriptures which is free from theological dogmas and altogether spiritual and logical. This pastor cannot hope to stay the progress of Christian Science by maligning it or its revered Discoverer and Founder, Mrs. Eddy. She was respected and honored during her lifetime as few women have been honored, and that honor and respect increases as the manner of her life and the importance of her teaching become better known.

The reverend critic, it is found, has based his attack largely on what may be termed half truths. Now Tennyson defined the nature of half truths in "The Grandmother," and it is quite certain that they do not improve in character or become more worthy of respect when coming from the mouth or pen of one wearing the garment of a minister of the gospel of Truth.

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