Article March 21, 1925 Issue

That a certain minister should attempt to influence people...

Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for the State of New Jersey,—Paterson

Sunday Chronicle

That a certain minister should attempt to influence people into believing that Christian Science is what it is not, by stating that his sermon is drawn from "careful, conscientious, scholarly analysis of the subject," when his statements show clearly that he has in no sense mastered the subject, is wrong even from the standpoint of fair play. He charges that Christian Science is a "fearful peril" and an evil. The Christian Science movement to-day has assumed such large proportions, and so many hundreds of thousands of persons have been healed mentally, morally, and physically through its ministrations, that it is rather late in the day for any one to say that it is a "fearful peril."

The editor of the Ridgefield Park Bulletin, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, on September 28, 1923, said: "In reply to a lengthy criticism concerning the danger of the growth of Christian Science, I not only fail to see any reason for undue alarm, but confess to ample justification for its wonderful progress in the fact that it has strongly impressed upon its members a most remarkable serenity of mind. Its members display a most tolerant spirit toward others, even under the most trying circumstances."

That Christian Science is both scientific and Christian is shown by a statement of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 342): "If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. Shall it be denied that a system which works according to the Scriptures has Scriptural authority?" One of the signs of true Christianity given by the Master, Jesus the Christ, was the healing of the sick. His words and works were strictly scientific. Christian Science is in exact accord with these; hence its teachings are strictly Christian and scientific, as the appended quotation from The Christian Science Monitor of October 1 bears out: "Scientific Christianity—Christian Science—presents a new concept of creation as a universe necessarily composed of right ideas, because created by divine Mind. It brings to light the spiritual man, made in God's likeness, possessing dominion, health, and sinlessness, because made and sustained by divine Love. It leads to a sense of Life as eternal, progressive, continuous, because it teaches that Life is God. It reconciles the ever recurrent argument that Science and Christianity are antagonistic, and takes away incredulity as to the so-called miracles of Jesus' day by teaching how, in ever increasing measure, to do the same works; and thus it brings to light a new heaven and a new earth."

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