Article December 19, 1936 Issue

Anyone who has given enough attention to the teachings...

Lester Parker, former Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,

Milford News

Anyone who has given enough attention to the teachings of Christian Science to test its rules and their application, recognizes readily that it is far from superficial. In fact, its demand for real consecration to good and the exemplification of faith by works instead of faith in words is the deterrent to the superficial critic who would wave aside its profound teaching as a vague theory. The great naturalist, Agassiz, said: "Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it."

The great truths revealed in Christian Science are clearly and simply stated in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which, to use the words of its author, Mary Baker Eddy (Pref., p. xii), "in the spirit of Christ's charity,—as one who 'hopeth all things, endureth all things,' and is joyful to bear consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick,—she commits," as she says, "to honest seekers for Truth."

Such honest seekers for Truth will find that Christian Science shows that evil, including sin, sickness, and the "last enemy that shall be destroyed," is not to be blandly ignored, deceitfully disclaimed, or waved aside in a sort of hypnotic ecstasy, but is to be recognized as the liar and the father of itself which Jesus described it to be. Everyone can agree that a lie has no foundation, no reality, thought it is constituted an evil by its claim to be true. The lie simply disappears in the light of Truth. It came from nowhere and it goes nowhere.

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