Article March 16, 1929 Issue

Your recent issue contained a correspondence which revealed...

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

Newry Reporter

Your recent issue contained a correspondence which revealed the unfortunate fact that certain people appear to be making the Girl Guide movement, which is nonsectarian and nondenominational, the raison d'etre for a virulent attack on Christian Science, a religion which is fulfilling, perhaps more than any other, the commands of our Master, to love God supremely and one's neighbor as one's self. The correspondence showed an amazing ignorance of both the teaching and the practice of Christian Science. For instances, "Veritas" apparently believes that Christian Science is not in accordance with the gospel of Christ Jesus "in its simplicity and purity." Christian Science is the Science taught and practiced by our Master, healing the sick and reforming the sinner. It was he who declared, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do."

Christian Science explains the atonement in such a way that it can be understood. it does not teach, as "Veritas" asserts, that man cannot sin, if by that is meant mortal man. It teaches, in conformity with the Bible, that "whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." Christian Science teaches that man made in God's image and likeness cannot sin. On the other hand, it recognizes that so-called mortal man, recorded in the second chapter of Genesis as being formed of the dust of the ground, is the expression of sin, and must be put off as Paul declared. Christian Science teaches how this can be done.

Recently the Rev. T. Rhondda Williams, chariman-elect of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, said in a sermon that he "often defended Christian Science because there seemed such a vast amount of truth in it." The Rev. J. Vivian Davies, when answering the question, What should be the attitude of the church to Christian Science? said: "It gave an exalted view of God, a spiritual basis for the universe, and physical and spiritual health. A movement to which good and earnest people attached themselves merited attention." On page 21 of her book "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy says, "As the ages advance in spirituality, Christian Science will be seen to depart from the trend of other Christian denominations in no wise except by increase of spirituality."

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