Article July 31, 1920 Issue

The Staff of a recent date reports a "popular evangelist"...

John M. Dean

Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff

The Staff of a recent date reports a "popular evangelist" as denouncing Christian Science in language forceful, if not elegant. It is characteristic of some people to abuse everything that does not square with their peculiar ideas, but thinking people do not accept vituperation as argument. Any one can throw mud, but kindness and tolerance and courtesy are Christian graces which some modern pulpiteers would do well to cultivate. Christian Scientists are in a large measure fulfilling the commands of Jesus to preach the gospel and heal the sick, yet for these works some of his professed followers delight in stoning them. In the fullness of time this critic will learn that intemperate language can never establish his own religion or destroy the religion of another. If he has something better than Christian Science to offer, the world will finally accept it, and that will be the end of Christian Science; but destructive criticism which stresses only one phase of the Master's work while denouncing those who are honestly striving to practice his full teaching, must go down before the advancing thought of an enlightened Christianity.

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