Article April 17, 1920 Issue

From reading the remarks of a clerical critic at a meeting...

Charles W. J. Tennant

Bromsgrove (England) Messenger

From reading the remarks of a clerical critic at a meeting in the Institute at Bromsgrove recently, one might be led to imagine that Christian Science was something quite distinct from the gospel of Christ. Christian Science is the gospel of Jesus the Christ; it is the Science that he taught and demonstrated, and which has been rediscovered by Mrs. Eddy. We are glad that our critic acknowledges that there are genuine cures in Christian Science, but he also says it contains grave errors and mistakes. Christian Science is based on divine Principle, with definite rules. If these are obeyed, then the results are as certain as properly worked out sums in mathematics. If our critic takes for his premise the fact that God is Spirit, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, then the only possible conclusion he can arrive at is that God, Spirit, is all and there is none else. Every statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy is either a statement of this premise or a conclusion drawn therefrom. There are no grave errors or mistakes in it. The millions throughout the world who are able to demonstrate Christian Science in part are becoming a vast "cloud of witnesses" to the truth of Jesus' teaching, and humanity is feeling the impulse that is being given by them to the restoration of Christian healing.

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