Article March 27, 1920 Issue

You report a sermon by a clergyman, which he called...

Louis A. Gregory

Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald

You report a sermon by a clergyman, which he called "Death in the Christian Science Pot." He stated the basis of his accusation as follows: "Many followers of Christian Science do not know, and when told can scarcely believe, that Christian Science teaches such a deadly and fatal doctrine as denying the deity of Jesus Christ." This assertion that the followers of Christian Science do not know that it contradicts the belief in the deity of Jesus Christ is a mistake announced by this critic years ago. He admits that it was authoritatively pointed out to him then that Christian Science teaching on this subject is plain. With greatest directness its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 361 states: "Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God."

Long before Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, several Christian sects were emphatically denying that the theory of the deity of Jesus Christ is consistent Bible doctrine. The history of this denial makes clear that it is not peculiar to Christian Science, and that to call it "poison" is to assail the position of eminent churchmen now at least considered orthodox.

The pot that furnished the topic for this discussion is that of the ancient prophets whose servant ignorantly put poisonous gourds into the pottage. If the poison, then, represents spiritual ignorance, as well it may, accurate analysis and practical experience prove that it is not an ingredient of Christian Science. What this Science is and does, is a matter of everyday proof in the experience of its adherents, who hold to it because it masters sin and disease, as Christ Jesus did and as other methods do not do. To say that its spiritual and physical healing can come from any other source than God is to contradict the substance of gospel teaching. Against the bald assertion that Christian Science teaching is death, there is an overwhelming mass of evidence that this Science teaches and proves spiritual life and its accurate expression here and hereafter. In this way it applies our Savior's assurance, "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

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