THE KING’S BUSINESS 581 Theology, Kansas City Theological Seminary. As the article is brief and to the point we reproduce it here: 1. The founder of Christian Science was not worthy of our confidence and esteem. 2. Christian Science is not an interpretation of the Bible but a re-stating in Chris tian terms of pagan philosophic vargaries. It is ancient speculation clothed in modern dress. . . >. ■ 3. ' The contention of Christian Science that there is no sin, sickness, nor death is a contradiction of human reason and a muffling of the conscience. 4. Christian Science dishonors Christ. It teaches that He is the ‘way-show-er’, but nothing more. 5. Christian Science denies the value of Christ’s death and the fact of His resur rection. It rejects the atonement.; 6. Christian Science repudiates repentance and faith, It explains away prayer. To well-informed Christian Scientists prayer ,is nothing but meditation. 7. Christian Science rejects baptism and the Lord's Supper. 8. Christian Science robs God of volition, feeling, sympathy, memory ,and purpose. Christian Scientists think of God not as Our Heavenly Father but as cold and impersonal Principle. 9. Christian Science is pantheism, notwithstanding all the frantic denials of its advocates. 10. Christian Science builds no hospitals and cannot build any.” The. following editorial note accompanied this article: “Dr. Stafford is the author of a scholarly book ‘The Origin of Christian Science,’ one of the best refutations of this modern¿religious fad. He was asked to prepare this, article to offset the unfortunate publicity given items appearing on this page in the January 27th issue, and also to assure our readers that Young People and its editor are emphatically against Christian Science heresies in any form.’’ “For those who fight in a nation’s cause” (the italics are our own) “the sufferings of this present tirfie are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” The evident thought is that the passage quoted refers to the one who dies for his country. It hardly needs to be said that no thought was more remote than that from the mind of God when He inspired the Apostle Paul to write these great words. They are written regarding the 'greater reward of the sufferings, not of those who die for country, but of those who suffer with Christ and for Christ, as is evident from the verse which immediately precedes (Rom. 8:17). There is a tendency, a shocking tendency, even among supposedly evangelical persons in these days of suffering and death, to substitute for God’s way of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ as our atoning and risen Saviour, salvation by fighting and dying for one’s country. No man will be saved by dying for his country. No man will be saved except through the acceptance of Jesus Christ (John 3:18, 36; Acts 4:12; Rom. 16:9, 10), and the rewards spoken of in the New Testament are not for those that show heroism, on the field of battle. Many of the vilest and most selfish of men have shown great heroism arid made great sacrifices on the field of battle, and they have died and gone to eternal destruction because of their awful folly and appalling sin in rejecting and trampling under foot the Son of God who died on the cross of Calvary for them. In a recent number of “The London Graphic” there is an outrageous perversion of the Word of God..' A beautiful picture is published, under which is the title, . “The Greater Reward,” with these added words: The Perversion of Scripture.
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