Article October 12, 1912 Issue

According to the report of his sermon to the Medical Congress...

William J. Bonnin

Liverpool (Eng.) Post and Mercury

According to the report of his sermon to the Medical Congress, the Bishop of Liverpool unfortunately thought it necessary to preface his statement of the truth he had discerned in Christian Science with some rather strong expressions in condemnation of that religion. The general nature of these charges precludes the refutation of them in the limited space you could allow me. Perhaps, however, you will permit me to say that when their religion is assailed by Christian ministers, or any one whose efforts are devoted to the amelioration of the race, Christian Scientists deplore most of all the wasteful internecine nature of such warfare. After all, the goal is the common one of truth. If the bishop thinks that the healing of the sick is not a duty attaching to a Christian life, but is rightly undertaken by a sepa rate profession, Christian Scientists have no desire to find fault with him. They themselves honestly believe that it is such a duty, and that spiritual healing is scientific healing. The discovery of what they are convinced is "the better way" does not blind them to the fact that clergymen and doctors are working for the spiritual and physical betterment of humanity to the best of their ability, and to them they would say, as Abraham said to Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren."

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