Article September 17, 1910 Issue

It is not at all strange that the audience of our clerical critic...

Alfred Farlow

Boston Post

It is not at all strange that the audience of our clerical critic was surprised when he said that Christian Science is "a most pernicious and astounding fraud," and that the people who accept it are "fools," since almost every man and woman in the country has at least one intimate friend who he knows is not a "fool," and yet has been a beneficiary of Christian Science and has accepted its teachings. The gentleman is reported as having likened Christian Science to "a short bed and narrow covering under which the judges of Israel failed to hide."

To continue the metaphor, he does not explain why hundreds of us, because of various infirmities, were not able to stretch our legs to the full extent until Christian Science came to the rescue. It seems rather late to berate the theory of Christian Science after it has established itself by good works. It would be well for a clergyman to remember the Scriptural declaration, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

If the "crazy quilt" of Christian Science restores the lost health, harmony, and happiness of the individual and enables him to master sins which heretofore have held him in bondage, no doubt all of our critic's hearers will eventually provide themselves with one. The writer of this article did not secure one until he felt the need of it, and I confess that if I could have been relieved of my distresses by any means which were tangible to my material senses I should have deferred the investigation of that which is not perceptible to the senses, but which is none the less real. However, there is no "mystery" to be found in Christian Science, if one regards it from its own—the spiritual point of view.

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