Article March 27, 1909 Issue

Christian Science demands a lively faith, rising, through...

W. J. Bonnin

Manchester (Eng.) Courier

Christian Science demands a lively faith, rising, through constant translation into works, into the higher planes of spiritual understanding and knowledge; and while it enforces calm and orderly habits of thought, it induces a mental activity of the highest quality. "Inert" and "inactive" would seem almost the last epithets to describe such a faith. Again, a vague general assertion to the effect that Christian Scientists have persisted in abstaining from the wares of the chemist and druggist till "they have declined into a state of health past remedy," is a broadside which, happily, falls very wide of the mark.

The fact is that Christian Science churches are filled with those who testify to the direct contrary, and as Christian Science organizations are increasing over the world at a rate equal to a new center being established every four days, it will be seen that the volume of this testimony is an ever-growing one. Further, Christian Science does not, as the writer of the article seems to assume, rely on suggestion, will-power, or any other agency of the human mind, but especially and emphatically disowns and discountenances them as mere counterfeits of the one true method practised by the Master, and by him ordained both as the reward and the test of a true belief in him, the spiritual understanding of the omnipotent, omnipresent love of God, the infallible destruction of that which is not real and eternal by that which is.

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