Article August 28, 1920 Issue

The Bee-Nugget of recent date reports a critic of Christian Science...

Louis E. Scholl

Chehalis (Wash.) Bee-Nugget

The Bee-Nugget of recent date reports a critic of Christian Science as saying that it is neither Christian nor scientific. Permit me to say here that whether this is a true statement or not depends not at all upon the opinions of those professional opponents of Christian Science who gain a certain amount of popularity and publicity by sensational attacks on a church that has had a wonderful growth and has brought great blessings to suffering humanity.

Webster defines Christianity as "practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion," and all would probably agree that this is a good definition. Christian Scientists are endeavoring to be Christians in this sense, and are striving to be Christians, not merely by profession, but by "demonstration of the Spirit and of power."

If this critic who claims to "do the work of an evangelist" would confine himself to that work and, instead of judging others who are just as sincere as he is in their endeavors to follow Christ, leave his hearers and the reading public to form their own opinions as to whether Christian Science is Christian and scientific, he would probably be doing the cause which he represents a greater service. Jesus left just one test by which his followers were to be judged when he said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." Paul tells us, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." Unjust criticism of any body of people who are sincerely trying to make the world better has not as a rule borne "the fruit of the Spirit." Mrs. Eddy says on page 106 of Miscellany, "I admonish Christian Scientists either to speak charitably of all mankind or to keep silent, for love fulfils divine law and without this proof of love mental practice were profitless." Leaders of all religious bodies and their followers must learn this lesson before ever the world will be brought to a knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ.

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