Article October 29, 1927 Issue

According to your report of a sermon recently delivered in...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—Houston

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According to your report of a sermon recently delivered in a Lutheran church of your city, the pastor characterized Christian Science as a "delusion," and intimated that its moral and spiritual requirements are other than those of Christianity. Such assertions, however, utterly misrepresent Christian Science, and betray a lack of comprehension of its teachings. Christian in every sense, Christian Science necessarily makes it plain that in order to experience salvation the sinner must conform to the Scriptural requirements. Moreover, the precept, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," is shown by Christian Science to be an immutable law, from the operation of which there is no escape. However, Christian Science teaches, and demonstrates, that to those who turn, humble and repentant, to their heavenly Father for succor and salvation, help will be given; though Christian Science causes the wicked to "forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts" through inculcating a love for good and a desire to be good rather than by stressing an untenable dogma of a vengeful Deity. The God who is Love is the God of Christian Science, whose precepts, loved and lived, bring salvation from every ill to which flesh is heir. Christian Science not only warns the sinning of the unescapable suffering that sin brings, but teaches the wayward how to turn from his evil ways and live, and enables him to do this. This is the practical operation of the law of love, which is seen in the lives of unnumbered thousands who have been redeemed and reclaimed from different forms of vice, wickedness, and sin through Christian Science; evidence of which is to be found on every hand.

Those who have been healed of drunkenness, drug addiction, dishonesty, impurity, immorality, wickedness, sin, or vice of any kind, through this Christian practice, bear eloquent and irrefutable testimony to its healing and redemptive power. Moreover, the healing ministry of Christian Science (healing of all manner of sickness and disease, as well as sin) meets the test laid down by the Master, by which such teaching and practice are to be judged, namely, "By their fruits." In what sense, then, is Christian Science a "delusion"? That which deludes leads away from error into error; but Christian Science, leading away from error into truth, conforms to the Christ-standard in every particular, demonstrating God to be a "very present help" in every trouble and need. Christian Science creates in its students a reverence for and a desire to understand and yield obedience to the sacred Scriptures, teaching that it is only through loving God and His Christ supremely, and his neighbor as himself, that the individual can attain to salvation and the Christ-ideal. The right, then, of Christian Science to be known as Christian is incontestable.

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