Article February 27, 1926 Issue

In a recent issue of your paper an evangelist is quoted as...

Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,—Kearney

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In a recent issue of your paper an evangelist is quoted as criticizing Christian Science for "making an attack upon the deity of Christ and making its appeal to the bargain-hunting attitude characteristic of our American life." With reference to the expression, "the deity of Christ," we understand our critic to mean that Christ is God. If so, it is true that Christian Science disagrees with this theory. This disagreement cannot be properly described as an attack, but rather as consistent adherence to the teachings of Christ Jesus on the part of Christian Science.

Undoubtedly Christ Jesus is the best authority regarding God and his own identity. The Master spoke of his true identity as the Son of God; and John quotes him as saying, "My Father is greater than I." On numerous occasions Christ Jesus referred to God as "my Father" and "Our Father," and he taught us to pray to the same God to whom he addressed himself in prayer. The sixth and seventeenth chapters of John contain some especially illuminating statements elucidating Jesus' understanding of the relationship of the Father and Son; and Christian Science subscribes to what the Master said. The real appeal which Christian Science makes is to those who are hungering for a demonstrable knowledge of God. It has touched the thought of those who have been unsatisfied elsewhere, and has supplied thousands with proofs that God is indeed an ever present help. Those who are at all familiar with the history of Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science know well that this religion has never made an appeal to popular acclaim. In its stand against sin, disease, and death it has met with opposition, but it has never receded from its position of radical reliance on God. And its following is not confined to America, but extends over the entire civilized portion of the globe, including intelligent, substantial, law-abiding people.

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