Article July 11, 1925 Issue

It is impossible in the space of a letter to answer all the...

Miss Evelyn L. Webb, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,—Belfast

Witness

It is impossible in the space of a letter to answer all the points brought up by this article of our critic. Perhaps the greatest injustice to the teachings of Christian Science in it is the writer's presentation of our view of the life of Christ Jesus. No one who has the slightest comprehension of Christian Science would make the statement which I now quote: "Christian Science makes his cross an empty and needless demonstration. It makes his agonizing words about sin a simple travesty." I would ask those who are really interested to know what Christian Science does teach with regard to that sacred life to read the chapter entitled "Atonement and Eucharist" in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and I venture to say if they read it with an open mind they will discover therein one of the most beautiful, reverent, and illuminating discourses concerning the life of our Lord ever written. In speaking of Christ Jesus in the chapter referred to, Mrs. Eddy says (p. 52): "From early boyhood he was about his 'Father's business.' His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His master was Spirit; their master was matter. He served God; they served mammon. His affections were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death. Their imperfections and impurity felt the ever-present rebuke of his perfection and purity. Hence the world's hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the prophet's foresight of the reception error would give him."

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