Article April 29, 1905 Issue

A Loving Rebuke

Sue Mims

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution

Editor Constitution :— We note that the Constitution quotes Mr. Meyer at the Tabernacle as saying that since he has the genuine Christianity he has no need for Christian Science. Disparaging remarks about Christian Science and its revered and gifted Leader have not been infrequent during the Bible conference, and they have passed without notice from our denomination, but it is time to say a few words.

The Christ that has come to me in Christian Science has brought to my consciousness a large and loving tolerance for differing opinions, creeds, and doctrines; a deep and abiding faith in the ultimate triumph of good, God; a loving and patient sympathy with every aspiration in the human heart toward Christliness. While the members of our denomination have been mostly debarred from the conference, on account of the embarrassment of hearing their loved religion often misrepresented and maligned, yet there has never been a moment when we have not rejoiced to know that so many are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, that the meetings have been large and well attended, and we still trust that every good thought and word of truth may bear its fruitage in this city so dear to us all. I often think it would be wise if our press would reprint every paragraph of Sidney Lanier's magnificent poem on "Intolerance."

Even if the Bible conference is composed of the great stars in the spiritual firmament, why should not they rejoice that the little twinkling stars are also rejoicing in the affluence of the light — "which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." It is the infinitude of the individual reflection of light which constitutes the starry splendor of the heavens. Sometimes it is found that the little star is really a splendid central sun with its own grand system, and small only to our limited vision.

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