In view of the rapid and portentous strides made by Christian Science today, it behooves Christians to know what is taught by a system which claims to be Christian, to revere the Bible, and to honor Christ.

For those who have neither time nor opportunity to investigate these claims the following quotations have been carefully culled. Unless otherwise stated, they are all from the text-book, '' Science and Health, and Key to the Scriptures," edition of 1909, and are followed by the numbers of page and line.

May the knowledge of what Christian Science is be used of God to the safeguarding of any of His own who may be in danger of becoming ensnared by this "wile of the devil "(Eph. 6:11). E. V. W.

"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" CLAIMS TO BE:

God's gospel-page 11. The word of God-ed. '01, p. 497. The Holy Ghost-p. 46, line 30, and p. 43, 1. 8. Divine Science-p. 12, 1. 31. The Comforter-p. 55, 1. 29. Mind-healing-p. 52, 1. 22. The new wine of the Spirit-ed. '01, p. 8. The light shining in darkness, which the darkness
comprehends not- ed. ‘01, p.293.

FROM "ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST":

Another's suffering cannot lessen our own liability-p. 40, 1. 14.

One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin-p. 23, 1. 2. The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part-p. 23, 1. 4.

Final deliverance from error is not reached by pinning one's faith without works to another's vicarious effort-p. 22, 1. 23. The eternal Christ, His spiritual selfhood, never suffered-p. 38, 1. 23.

HOW "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" QUOTES THE BIBLE:

"The injunction, 'Believe, and thou shalt be saved,' demands self-reliant trustworthiness " -p. 23, 1. 28.

'' For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the [seeming] death of His Son "-p. 45, 1. 10.

"Jesus was 'the way'; that is, He marked the way for all men "-p. 46, 1. 25.

"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" LOGIC:

He overcame the world, the flesh, and all error, thus proving their nothingness-p. 39, 1. 4.

"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" BLASPHEMY:

That God-like man-p. 54, 1. 29.

At the time when Jesus felt our infirmities He had not conquered all the beliefs of the flesh, or His sense of material life-p. 53, 1. 27.

The scourge and the cross awaited the great Teacher. Yet He swerved not, well knowing that to obey the divine order and trust God saves retracing and traversing anew the path from sin to holiness-p. 20, 1. 19.

The motherhood of God-ed. '01, p. 500.

"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" TEACHES:
The soul is not in the body-p. 39, 1. 10.

There is no personal devil-p. 16,1. 18; p. 41,1. 32; p. 46, 1. 11.

There is no pleasure in sin-p. 39, 1. 32. There is no pain in Truth-ed. '01, p. 7. Man is not a mortal, but an immortal-p. 42,1. 28. There is a Purgatory, or place of probation after death-p. 36, 1. 21. "A probationary and progressive state beyond the grave "-p. 46, 1. 23. Our Lord spent a period of probation in the flesh-p. 35, 1. 15. To have a human father is unnecessary-p. 31,

1. 10. There should be a discontinuance of the marriage relation-p. 56, 1. 11; p. 57, 1. i; p. 57, 1. 27. Jesus was conceived by the Virgin Mary by the illumination of her spiritual sense. He was her ideal-p. 29,1. 17. The scientific explanation of the atonement is that suffering is an error of sinful sense which Truth destroys-p. 23, 1. 8.

And all this wicked, blasphemous doctrine deceitfully cloaked over by the name of " Christian "![Ed.