Article January 13, 1912 Issue

In a letter on Christian Science, contained in your issue...

Frederick Dixon

Sevenoaks (Eng.) Chronicle

In a letter on Christian Science, contained in your issue of the 24th inst., the rector of Sevenoaks bears testimony to the freedom from bitterness in controversy of Christian Scientists. This admission makes it all the easier and all the more possible to differ from the critic, who, while maintaining an attitude of strongest opposition to Christian Science, does so in a tone very different from that of many of its opponents. May I say at once that his criticism that Christian Science is anti-Christian and heretical, need not disturb any Christian Scientist very much. The history of Christianity during the Christian era is composed very much of such criticisms as these. The early centuries were occupied with controversies which were commonly solved by an appeal to force rather than an appeal to argument, indeed the methods of the victors remind one more of the opening than the closing lines of the famous epigram in which Sir William Browne replied to Dr. Trapp:—

The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,
For whigs allow no force but argument.

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