Article October 22, 1927 Issue

A clergyman, speaking in the Malvern Baptist Church...

Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,—Worcestershire, England

Malvern Gazette

A clergyman, speaking in the Malvern Baptist Church some days ago, is reported in your recent issue to have said that Christian Science is not a religion. Now Christian Science is the religion of Christ Jesus, and in founding the Christian Science church in 1879, on the motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was voted: "To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17). Christian Science is scientific because it is demonstrable Christian knowledge; it is Christian because it fulfills the commands of our Master, Christ Jesus, in healing the sick and reforming the sinner through his spiritual method.

Our critic seems to forget that in the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God made all that was made, and pronounced it very good. John reiterates this in declaring that "all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." This creation must include all reality. Our critic surely does not believe that sin, disease, and death are in the category of God's creation. In this connection, Mrs. Eddy writes on page 472 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise."

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