Article January 8, 1910 Issue

As we write these words there rises before the mental...

E. M. Ramsay—Scotland.

Bridge of Allan Gazette

As we write these words there rises before the mental vision a long line of seers, reformers, discoverers, who were regarded as madmen by one generation, and hailed as saints and heroes by the next. The learned professors of Salamanca saw in Columbus but a visionary or adventurer, and it does not surprise us, therefore, that the claims of Christian Science should arouse so much opposition and be received with so much incredulity.

Mrs. Eddy points out a wider sphere of possibility than that of which Columbus dreamed,—a broader horizon, a purer atmosphere, a land more fair and free. She is showing to men and women of today how to lead lives of greater health and happiness; purer, truer, more courageous than the lives they had led before; lives of greater usefulness, of greater brotherliness, of greater humility, serenity, and power; lives spent in closer communion with God. Christian Science teaches that the supreme governing law of the universe is God, divine Life; that this Life is now available to man, and that it is as possible today as of yore to carry out the Saviour's commands and to heal the sick as he enjoined, since that which was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the text-book of this Science, shows how the healing work can be done; it presents the student with a definite system by which the wrong thinking, which it regards as the cause of all the sin, sorrow, and suffering in the world, may be corrected. The processes it institutes are as definite as those of mathematics, and when fully understood can be fully demonstrated.

While the students of Christian Science admit in all humility how far short they fall of accomplishing all the good they desire to do, yet they know well that it is not the occasional failures which may be laid at their door, but the large measure of success attendant on their practice which has aroused so much opposition in certain quarters. We have no quarrel with the clergy or with the doctors; we do not grudge them their manses, stipends or fees, nor desire in any way to interfere with their honest efforts for the welfare of the race. If the clergy find that their prayers are more powerful when accompanied by medicine, by all means let them combine the two. For ourselves we are convinced that Christian Science has nothing to gain from any such combination, that it is both safer and more efficacious than any other healing system known on earth today, and that time will prove this to the satisfaction of all men.

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