Editor Courier:—Seeing your kind notice of "Christian Science Propagators" in a Courier of recent date, will you please allow me to say a few words on that subject so that the readers of the Courier may get a more correct sense of what it is as well as of what it is not.
There
has been of late such an onslaught upon Christian Science on the part of many members of the Orthodox clergy, that if we were disposed to answer them all we should not be able to do so for want of time and space.
In
the Brooklyn Citizen of Sunday, January 22, 1899, appeared an article under the above head, containing the views of a physician and other upon the subject of Christian Science.
There is great rejoicing in the ranks of the Christian Scientists in our city over the acceptance by the Second Church of the invitation extended to it by the First Church to unite with them.
The great Teacher, who came from Heaven to instruct the human family, gave us this short, unerring rule by which to test the good and the bad: "By their fruits ye shall know them.
As each receives the light of this glorious Truth of Christian Science and begins to demonstrate or prove it, the temptation often comes to look at things from the material point.
One
evening as I walked thoughtfully along, revolving and considering the great "Truths of Being," I glanced up at a beautiful dwelling with immense plate-glass windows in every part.
Having
been a student in both the Allopathic and Homeopathic medical colleges, having studied in the dental colleges in New York and Philadelphia, having taught in the colleges of both professions, having been an active member of a large number of professional societies, a descendant of the friends, educated in early life at the Friends' Seminary, later a member of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches and actively interested in the missions and Christian Endeavor Society, and life Auxiliary Member of the Salvation Army, my investigation of Christian Science can be said to have been, though critical, without prejudice.
Lloyd B. Coate
with contributions from Hester, Mary
It may interest the Field to know that near our city, Dayton, Ohio, is located a Shaker settlement known as the Watervliet Village, where Christian Science has been introduced.
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