Article August 15, 1931 Issue

The pastor of the Gloucester Street Congregational Church...

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

Southern Times

The pastor of the Gloucester Street Congregational Church delivered a sermon on Christian Science on Sunday morning, taking for his text I Thessalonians 5:21, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." One wishes he had really attempted to act up to the words of his text. Instead, he has taken much of his information from unreliable and antagonistic sources, and quotes much of what the enemies of Mrs. Eddy and her religion have said. His sermon, therefore, proves nothing but that the preacher has become biased through being misled by misrepresentation.

The truth of Christian Science is being proved by countless thousands throughout the world to-day in healing the sick, reforming the sinner, relieving the destitute, comforting the sorrowing—in fact, the fruit of Christian Science is "the fruit of the Spirit" related by Paul in Galatians 5:22, 23.

Our critic quotes four statements from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 113): "1. God is All-in-all. 2. God is good. Good is Mind. 3. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter. 4. Life, God, omnipotent good, deny death, evil, sin, disease." He then makes the declaration that these are "weird statements." It is strange for a Christian clergyman to think it "weird" that God is All-in-all or that God is Mind, or that Spirit is all. They are statements that every Christian should adhere to. They are true, their logic is irrefutable, and Mrs. Eddy, therefore, draws the logical conclusion that evil, sin, disease, and death are not real. She is consistent in her reasoning, making every conclusion conform to its premise.

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