Article August 25, 1928 Issue

Among some church notes recently published in your...

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

Oxford Standard

Among some church notes recently published in your paper the following statement appears: "Christianity is not a religion, neither is it pious sentiments as expressed in Christian Science—and the many false fads that rest in nothing but the imagination of the mind."

Christian Scientists understand Christianity to be the religion of Christ Jesus, which they believe should be understood and practiced in its entirety. Among them are many to whom various essential parts of the Bible were once little more than sentiment; but through the understanding obtained in Christian Science they now see that the spiritual truths contained in the Bible are really demonstrable facts. They strive so to understand the words and works of Christ Jesus as to be able to prove their substantiality in the healing of sin and sickness as the Master did and said all who really believed in him would do. Christian Scientists have no quarrel with those of other religious beliefs, but their religion puts it squarely up to each individual to decide for himself whether he really understands that in which he professes to have faith, and whether his works prove the presence of genuine spirituality in his thought and life. Thus Christian Science is not imagination, but is solid fact. The true test here will ever be the works which the Master performed as proof of his divine mission and of the truth he taught, and Christian Science is before the public on this safe, sound basis.

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