Article February 23, 1924 Issue

The conclusion from what a certain writer says in the...

Brigman C. Odom, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—Greenville

Morning Herald

The conclusion from what a certain writer says in the Herald would be that Christian Science is not Christian, and that its teaching is dangerous. The Master said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Those who put Christian Science to the test find these results: "The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." The mission of Christian Science is to cheer and lift up, and to show the way of God to those who feel that they are unfavored and cast off. It is to make one unafraid; and it does this by giving one a knowledge of what God is and what man is. When the storm was raging on the Sea of Galilee, those aboard the ship, in their fear, appealed to Jesus. He said, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" Then he "rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." Jesus knew that calmness and quietness and peace—in fact all good—were at hand, and had never changed or been lost.

Christian Science does not tell one that he should be a Christian,—and leave him there; it shows him how he can be one; it shows him what God, good, is, and what man is. It explains evil. It shows him that it is in the unenlightened human mind that evil finds encouragement; and that as this so-called mind or thought is uplifted and purified, evil loses its seeming power. This is verified by the following and similar statements by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 276): "Man and his Maker are correlated in divine Science, and real consciousness is cognizant only of the things of God."

Christian Science teaches that one learns what God is by seeing the good in those about him; by seeing the good in those with whom he is associated. It shows that if one is not interested in those whom he sees, and loves and appreciates them, he cannot love God, whom he has not seen, and be interested in Him. Christian Science insists that the worthy, friendless, and hungry ones need something more than to be told that God is good, and that He is everywhere. It urges that such should have substantial help, as the world would call it, as well as spiritual aid or direction; that they need a friend who will help them to help themselves. Christian Science awakens those who think the world wholly corrupt and soulless, to the great wealth of human affection ready to be bestowed on others who believe that they are unfortunate. Christian Science is ready to help now—and it can do it—those who feel that they are in spiritual darkness; those who believe that their health is impaired or lost; that grief and sorrow and unrest attend them; or that they cannot find their way successfully in business matters. Christian Science encourages all to look up and to do something worth while; it says, Go forward steadily, not intermittently; it approves the Scriptural injunction that one shall study to show himself "approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed."

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