Editor of The Macon News.
In the issue of your paper of February 3, you publish another sermon by Rev. S. R. Maxwell against what he claims to believe Christian Science is and teaches. This sermon is really a special effort to prove that its author's own concept of Christian Science is not Christian; and if Christian Science were what Mr. Maxwell imagines it to be, even more and better reasons than he enumerates could be given to prove that it is not Christian. But, according to the understanding of Christian Scientists, nothing could be further removed from Christian Science than Mr. Maxwell's concept of it; and no one who understands, loves, and demonstrates Christian Science as it is, would ever think of accepting what Mr. Maxwell represents it to be. Neither would any Christian Scientist desire to have Mr. Maxwell change his relatively high concept of Christianity for his almost absolutely false, and therefore low, concept of Christian Science; for his concept of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles is much nearer to Christian Science than what he so persistently represents it to be.
The spirit as well as the subject-matter of Mr. Maxwell's last sermon is all the more surprising when we take into account his previous concessions to Christian Science, the high impersonal plane upon which he had promised to discuss the subject, and the fact that only a short time has elapsed since his own church received almost the same treatment from the older churches that he is now trying to mete out to Christian Science. His misconceptions and misrepresentations of Christian Science and of the Leader of the Christian Science movement are still more surprising when we take into account the fact that they have been so often corrected and that he is as seemingly persistent in his efforts to refuse to recognize what Christian Science is, as he is to prove that it is the opposite of what Mrs. Eddy and all other genuine Christian Scientists understand it to be.
