Article January 22, 1903 Issue

The Path of Progress

Albert E. Miller

North East (Pa.) Sun

THE path of progress for Christian Science has been at no point an easy one, and the number of adherents found to-day within the Christian Science Church are there because of personal experience with this new and yet old teaching,a and for no other reason. There is nothing in Christian Science to attract the seeker after personal enrichment. The demands made upon the individual in this faith are for constant and unceasing prayer, and it is a religion which depends upon works rather than upon words for its standard of righteousness.

Its numbers are recruited largely from the ranks of those who have had the best medical skill at their command, and two thirds of the membership of its churches is made up of persons who were formerly of good standing in other evangelical churches.

In insisting upon healing as well as preaching in its plan of salvation, it follows the example of our Saviour. Spiritual healing, as taught in the Bible and practised by prophets and apostles, should have as much place in the Christian teaching of to-day as it has ever had in the past. The command of our Master to "heal the sick" is as binding upon any one of his followers as upon another.

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