Article September 19, 1925 Issue

In a sermon reported in your recent issue a minister, referring...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Cresco

Howard County Times

In a sermon reported in your recent issue a minister, referring to Christian Science, said: "There is a lot of truth in Christian Science, as any physician will admit; but it has its limitations. Carried to the ultimate it rules out sympathy and becomes a religion of selfishness. If disease is only an error of mortal mind, why coddle and care for the sick?" The speaker's frank admission of the good to be found in Christian Science, followed by his paradoxical declaration that it leads to a condition for which no claims of goodness could be made, impels one at once to turn to that familiar Scripture, "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" Is it possible to conceive of a quality of good being developed, or "carried to the ultimate," so as to be transformed into veritable evil?

The ultimate of Christian Science can most properly be stated by its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, who writes on page 55 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself,—when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind." Christian Science teaches the most careful consideration for the needs of others, and the practice of the Golden Rule. Christian Scientists care for the sick because it is humane and Christian to do so; and even though a Christian minister now asks why this is done, we cannot think he would have other treatment accorded them. While working to overcome their shortcomings, Christian Scientists endeavor to be charitably disposed toward others, who may not have overcome, as yet, all limitations from which deliverance is earnestly sought.

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