PAUL
once wrote, "Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away," and Christ Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Among
the problems which confront the beginner in Christian Science, is the attitude maintained by relatives, friends and acquaintances who are not as yet disposed to investigate its teachings for themselves, and who sometimes sit in censorship upon the "new departure" of the student from the beaten tracks of church and social life.
Your reviewer may well wonder, as I fancy your readers will do, why, if Christian Science is based on such sandy foundations, it has been considered necessary to assail it with such vigor and frequency for over thirty years, and why, in spite of all the ridicule, opposition, and misrepresentation it has encountered, the movement had continued to grow with ever-increasing rapidity.
When it can be established beyond question that medical aid always effects a cure, and is never known to have a failure, and upon this exclusive basis is entitled to a monopoly of the healing art; when it can be demonstrated that nothing but medical method does or can heal, then, and not until then, will there be even the semblance of an excuse for the intense opposition encountered by Christian Scientists in their efforts to help their fellow-man.
It cannot be legitimately asserted by our critic that Christian Science "exalts scientific speculation above scientific knowledge," simply because Mrs.
In a recent issue, commenting upon my statement concerning the diagnosis of disease, you say; "Inasmuch as mental causation is recognized by all practitioners to have more or less to do with physical conditions, the conclusion seems justified that Christian Science is in process of modification so far as some of its claims are concerned.
It
is very questionable whether the votaries of pleasure or those who devote themselves to the task of acquiring material possessions have in reality any well-defined goal toward which they press.
with contributions from Archibald McLellan, Florence Coutts-Fowlie, Rosalie G. Amory, Mary E. Eaton, Jessie Lumsden, Albert E. Miller, Wm. R. Rathvon, G. A. Kratzer, Edward W. Dickey, Annie M. Knott, Fannie C. Lowell, Laura Mood Schneider, C. Seymour, Lena Hind, Louise Knight Wheatley, John Forbes
Extensive improvements are being made in the Christian Science church in North E Street, near Seventh Street, to make room for the rapidly increasing congregation.
We are told in the Bible, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you," and I shall endeavor to do this with a view to helping some one who may be, as I was for so many years, almost destitute of hope.
I rejoice in knowing the care of our Father-Mother God for all His children, in knowing the faithfulness of His Son, Christ Jesus, who taught us about that divine care, and I also rejoice that because of the thorough apprehension of that teaching by Mrs.
Three years ago, when about to unite with the Christian Science Society of our town, I was asked by an orthodox friend whether I had really considered the cost and how much I should have to give up to belong to that church.
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with contributions from Archibald McLellan, Florence Coutts-Fowlie, Rosalie G. Amory, Mary E. Eaton, Jessie Lumsden, Albert E. Miller, Wm. R. Rathvon, G. A. Kratzer, Edward W. Dickey, Annie M. Knott, Fannie C. Lowell, Laura Mood Schneider, C. Seymour, Lena Hind, Louise Knight Wheatley, John Forbes