If
Christian Science in its practical operation did not reform the sinner and heal the sick, it would be neither Christian nor scientific, but a mere caricature of Christianity, deserving all that its misapprehending detractors have said.
Christian Science healing has been practised for more than a third of a century, and the vast number of adherents found in the Christian Science church to-day represents but a fractional part of those who have experienced the beneficial results of this healing practice.
Much
has been said within the past few years about the marked decrease in the number of students in attendance at the theological schools, and many reasons have been assigned for the evidence reluctance on the part of young men to enter upon the Christian ministry as their life-work.
Three years ago last March, I was sitting alone one evening, wondering how it was that we, who had been religiously giously trained, and who were trying our best to be worthy of the name, Christian, should find it so hard to live up to it, and also have so much trouble in the form of sickness.
I was brought up in an orthodox faith, but even in my youth I rebelled at the thought of a revengeful God, and the idea of a literal hell, with its accompaniment of fire and brimstone, that was constantly held up to me as part of my religious teaching.
Am I to think that there was a personal God six thousand years ago, or sixty thousand years ago, or six hundred thousand years ago, and that to—day, when I can go out and see him painting the leaves, and starting this fall the beginnings for next year's spring—see the love and life of the ever—present God at work before my eyes, can I think that His personality is gone?