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The critics of Christian Science are apt to speak in a...
Manchester (Eng.) Chronicle
The critics of Christian Science are apt to speak in a somewhat proprietary tone about "true religion" and "orthodox Christianity," for all the world as though such terms had some definite and accepted meaning, and did not constitute a begging of the whole question at issue. Thus a clerical critic, in his article in the World, from which extracts were printed last week, writes blandly of the superstitions to which men become victims "when once they reject true religion." When one bears in mind that, according to accepted authority on historic Christianity, the earlier and purer Christianity was gradually abandoned in the third century, when, in the words of Professor Harnack, the living faith was transformed into a creed to be believed, and devotion to Christ into Christology, with the resultant inability to demonstrate those signs promised to follow the true believer, then this statement of the reverend gentleman is seen to concern any form of Christianity rather than that primitive Christianity which Christian Science has set out to restore.
Most assuredly Christian Science in its teaching differs in many respects from that of other churches, but is there no demand for some fundamental recasting of our interpretation of the teaching of Jesus and the apostles? Do not the armies and navies of the world, its hospitals and gaols, its slums and its workhouses, argue eloquently that the Christianity of today falls short of the ideals of its Founder? Moreover, it is just by virtue of that difference that Christian Science is enabled to achieve its work of healing the sick, the sinning, and the suffering. Our critic says that among the truths of fundamental importance Christian Science insists upon, is the spiritual view of man and the world. But he adds that its protest against the materialistic view "of course goes too far in the opposite extreme." How this can be possible does not appear. If the spiritual view be the true view, the material must be the false, and it is hard to see how one can go "too far" in the direction of attaining to the true view. To believe that there is reality or truth in both views is to attempt to serve God and mammon—the fatal dualism that Christian Science comes to destroy.
The jumble of short statements given out by this critic as Mrs. Eddy's pronouncements on certain Christian doctrines is entirely misleading, and as unfair a method of criticism as could be adopted. That Mrs. Eddy has ever said that "Jesus was a mere healer of the sick" is pure invention. This critic speaks of another truth of fundamental importance in Christian Science, the immense power of the soul to influence the body, "though how far this power extends is not yet fully known." At the same time he refers to Christian Scientists as dupes and Christian Science as nonsense, in connection with this very subject. Now Christian Science has not only definitely and lucidly expounded this subject, but it has also been responsible for the ever-increasing amount of thought that is being given to it throughout the world.
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March 26, 1910 issue
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EVERY MAN SPEAKING THE TRUTH TO HIS NEIGHBOR
SUE H. MIMS.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IS BRINGING HEAVEN TO EARTH
EDWARD B. LENT.
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HALF MEASURE AND FULL MEASURE
COL. W. E. FELL.
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THE LAW OF OPPOSITES
WILLIAM HALL ROBERTSON.
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LOOK WITHIN
KATE BUELL MOREY.
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REST
D. AURELIA HILTON.
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"NOTHING CAN I LACK"
WINIFRED STANTON.
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What is quite unnecessary, what is really, when you...
Frederick Dixon
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The critics of Christian Science are apt to speak in a...
William J. Bonnin
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Christian Science is a faith that heals and protects
Elizabeth T. Bell
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It would be difficult to find words to express more fittingly...
William Pitfield
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It is asked in a late issue, "How can physicians who...
Olcott Haskell
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To characterize any teaching as a substitute for the religion...
Howard C. Van Meter
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A late issue says that "Christian Science denies the...
Alfred Farlow
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Christian Science is based and built entirely and uncompromisingly...
Clinton B. Burgess
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The time has long since passed that one may assume the...
Charles K. Skinner
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Christian Scientists believe that the works of Jesus, his...
George Shaw Cook
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The Principle of Christian Science is God
George A. Law
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GROWING
LAURA GERAHTY.
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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A QUESTION ANSWERED
Editor
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"THE MILLS OF GOD."
Annie M. Knott
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THE HIDDEN LIFE
John B. Willis
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LETTERS TO OUR LEADER
with contributions from Grace E. Allen, Adele J. Barker, R. W. Fiske, Mary E. Sutton, Ella Sweet, Charlotte D. Holcombe, Anna M. Shrewsbury, B. Rush Petrikin, Alice L. Hall, Jacob S. Shield, Helen A. Allen, Committee, Martha E. Burns, Henry L. Upton, M. Emma Ellis, Melville Wight, Edna L. Upton, Walter H. Vanzwoll, Mary W. Haring, Casper M. Haring, Helen Sondheim, Mary A. Bally
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Albert B. Cooper, Judge G. W. Burnham
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ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
with contributions from John V. Dittemore
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I cannot fully express my gratitude for the blessings...
Elizabeth Higgins
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Christian Science found me an invalid, and the first one...
with contributions from T. O. Leeland
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With a heart overflowing with gratitude, I join the...
Julia Burr Mosher
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I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science...
Caroline Mohr
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It is with a grateful heart that I send this testimony to...
Maude Corey Godfrey
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One day early in the spring of 1899, our daughter came...
Jessie A. Fifield
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To say that I am very, very thankful for Christian Science,...
Charles H. Spangler
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I had always suffered from an affection of the throat,...
Minna Grace Roper
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In March, 1908, I had an attack of illness which led to...
Catherine E. Eason
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On Aug. 21, 1908, I was helping to put a carload of...
Edwin W. Watson
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When Christian Science was first suggested to me, it...
Helen H. McLean
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I wish to express my deep gratitude to God, and to...
Margaret W. Taylor
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In June, 1908, I was attacked with acute lung trouble,...
Jesse A. Stevens
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LIFE, TRUTH, AND LOVE
L. A. WHARTON.
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
R. J. Campbell with contributions from William H. P. Faunce