Article February 11, 1922 Issue

As a reported address on Christian Science contains misleading...

Joseph Axtell

Weston-Super-Mare (Eng.) Gazette

As a reported address on Christian Science contains misleading statements, due, no doubt, to limited information, will you kindly allow a brief correction?

So far from following opponents of the teachings of John, Christian Scientists consider that apostle the most advanced spiritually minded disciple of Christ Jesus. For the denial of materiality we look to the gospel of John, who recorded Jesus' own words: "God is Spirit," and, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." John also declared, "God is love." This precludes the idea of a personal, anthropomorphic God. Paul also emphasizes this many times: "The carnal mind is enmity against God," and, "They that are in the flesh cannot please God," and so on. In her work "No and Yes" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 19), "What the person of the infinite is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the fatherliness of this Supreme Being." The clearest proof that Christian Scientists do not "deny the essential truths of Christian revelation," is that they are observing the Master's own standard of discipleship, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

Christian Science being the reinstatement and practice of primitive Christianity, one should not be led from this fact because similar terms are used in other phases of religious thought, including Gnosticism. Christian Scientists welcome the effort of the Church to return to Christian healing and, in practicing the Golden Rule, they remember the Master's lesson to his disciples as to tolerance toward others. They also give to our Lord his rightful position as the Christ, the Son of God, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

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