Article February 12, 1910 Issue

Our critic's sermon shows the fallacy of trying to explain...

James Phelps

La Crosse (Wis.) Leader-Press

Our critic's sermon shows the fallacy of trying to explain an exact science without first having demonstrated it. One might read through times without number a text-book on higher mathematics and not gain an understanding thereof. In order to comprehend it, it would be necessary to begin at the beginning and work out the problems according to principle and rule.

Our critic speaks of a "gullible public," evidently meaning thereby those who do not agree with his interpretation of things. If he is at all well informed he knows full well that men and women of the highest mental attainments in many professions—clergymen, physicians, lawyers, authors, educators, editors, artists, and actors—have espoused the Cause of Christian Science, have been convinced of the truthfulness of its teachings, and have borne glad testimony to a surcease from pain and an enlightened and satisfying understanding of God and His Christ through the study of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

Christian Science is as certainly a religion as were the teachings of Jesus the Christ, who spent a great deal of his time in going about and healing all manner of diseases. What distinguishes Mrs. Eddy's system of metaphysical healing from all others is the fact that it not only cures disease without the use of drugs or medicine, but without the use of hypnotism, the exertion of will-power, or the action of erring human mind on mind or body. It teaches its students to strive for that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," and that only by gaining the true understanding of God, and of man made in His image and likeness, can they heal the sick.

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