Article March 9, 1899 Issue

What Good Should Mean

Denver Republican

It is often said that Christian Science is good as far as it goes, but that it is fanatical and dangerous to carry it to extremes.

Good is a word that is not often employed in its highest sense. Good wine will often lead to very bad conduct, but good conduct cannot be in any sense evil, and cannot result in evil. If Christian Science be good at all, it is good in the very highest sense, and good, as opposed to evil, never can be carried to the point where it becomes bad or dangerous.

Beclouded by the foolishness of this world, which they call wisdom, men look upon everything as being either good or bad, according as it is applied. In this sense, arsenic is considered to be a good medicine, but a bad poison; it may cure or kill, according to the size of the dose. Food is good in moderation, but evil results follow ravenous eating. A change in freight rates is said to be good for one merchant and bad for another, or an act of Congress may be good for the state of New York, but bad for Colorado.

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