Jesus'
declaration, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," is very frequently quoted by Christian Scientists.
The atonement or at-one-ment, a condition of being at one with God, is one of the most important features of the teachings of Christian Science, though its interpretation differs somewhat from the ideas held by other churches.
In a recent issue of The News Tribune, an English writer is credited with a sharp criticism of what he is pleased to state is the teaching of Christian Science.
The headline, "Church's Duty not Healing of Body," in the Inquirer some days ago, virtually threw down the gauntlet to all Christians on the question of religious healing.
If Christian Science should seem obscure to some who have not grasped its propositions with sufficient understanding to demonstrate them, they should remember that the gospel of Christ, and him crucified, was to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness; yet that gospel has been the most potent force for good the world has ever seen.
When Christian Science states that sin, disease, and matter are unreal, it is equivalent to affirming that they are temporal and destructible, the phenomena of our present material sense of that "heaven and earth" which Jesus said should "pass away.
