Article June 26, 1920 Issue

Christian Science is referred to in the report of a sermon...

James M. Stevens

Montevideo (Minn.) News

Christian Science is referred to in the report of a sermon in a recent issue, in a way that is misleading to those who are unfamiliar with its teachings. Christian Science is founded entirely upon the Bible, and it teaches nothing for which it has not absolute Scriptural authority. Its teaching concerning sin and evil is correct, as can be proved by any one who will approach the subject with a fair and open mind.

In the Bible there are two distinct accounts of creation. Where, apparently, our critic becomes confused, is that he does not differentiate between the spiritual, real man, the man whom God created in His own image and who cannot therefore have a quality unlike God, and the mortal or carnal man who was created from dust. This mortal or carnal man is of course the man referred to in Romans 3:23, and in I John 1:8, to which our critic refers. These and the hundreds of other similar Scriptural passages, instead of refuting the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, as set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and her other works, tend to prove their absolute correctness.

Christian Science stands steadfastly on the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." It maintains on Scriptural authority that God is the only creator and that His creation is eternal. It therefore follows that everything which has a real existence, must have been created by God and be eternal. So if evil is real, it must have been created by God and is unchangeable. Christian Science maintains that God did not create evil and that therefore evil is not a reality; in other words, that it exists wholly as a false belief. It may be a very stubborn belief but it cannot be a reality, because it is not God-created.

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