In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

[Harper's Weekly.
Nowhere does Christian Science teach that sin can be ignored, as your correspondent again infers, and a more careful reading of the text-book would have shown him.
The basic truth of Christian Science is that God is Spirit, and that man is made in His image and likeness; that God, Spirit, created all; therefore, all is Spirit and spiritual.
Our critic is mistaken in his assertion that "Christian Scientists need no Saviour, for they do not sin, according to their belief.
Had our critic quoted in full what Mrs.
As a matter of fact the use of will-power is absolutely antithetical to all Christian Science treatment.
In order to answer the question as to why Christian Science treatment cannot be used to injure as well as to bless, it will first be necessary to define in what this treatment consists.
There has been much adverse criticism of late in the public press relating to Christian Science.
The conclusion that God must have a face in order to "see him face to face" is an illustration of literal interpretation.
Christian Scientists know that matter is a thing of thought wrongly conceived, and as such is under the control of right thinking, in the exact ratio of our spiritual understanding of this momentous fact.

THE ANGEL GUARDIAN

Watchmen, guards, policemen, safes, safety deposit boxes, locks that defy the intruder, laws to protect, courts, lawyers, judges, justices' of the supreme court,—all these suggest the care with which mortal mind protects its varied treasures, and rightly protects them, so long as universal brotherhood is an abstract idea rather than a demonstrated fact; so long as mankind believe in power and good apart from omnipotent power and impartial good.