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In an issue of your periodical you published a contribution under the caption "Pseudo Science," which makes the charge that Christian Science is "neither science nor Christianity." The writer declares that it "contains not a single basic principle which will admit of a scientific demonstration." Evidently he assumes that nothing which is not based upon material observation or matter is entitled to the name "science." We insist that there is something to know about spiritual being; that it is true, and hence justly entitled to the name "science," and that there is no legitimate authority for restricting the term "science" to material things.
Since our critic has made the assertion that Christian Science is not Christianity, let him show wherein it differs from the fundamental teaching of Christianity; namely, that God is Spirit, that Spirit is the only cause, the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending." Again, many of the foremost scientists of this age approximate to the teaching of Christian Science regarding the constituency or nature of matter. For example, Lord Balfour declares that "matter has been not only explained, but explained away." In his "Evolution of Matter," Gustave Le Bon, the great French scientist, who is probably the most advanced thinker of the age along this particular line, makes still more sweeping declarations. He asserts that he has caused matter to vanish without return, and that he has found that it ceases to be matter altogether, and he also declares that "energy is not indestructible. It is unceasingly consumed, and tends to vanish like the matter which represents one of its forms." Will our critic insist that these men are not scientists?

August 24, 1912 issue
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DISPELLING EVIL
BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE.
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THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
EDWARD H. CARMAN.
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"AND YE SHALL KNOW."
MINNIE E. COOK.
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CONCERNING OPTIMISM
W. T. SELLECK.
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"THY TEACHERS."
ERNEST C. MOSES.
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WHAT IS SIN?
COUNTESS FANNY VON MOLTKE.
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SPIRITUAL VISION
JEAN B. WOOD.
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PROTECTION
ROSE HENNIKER HEATON.
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In his list of "twenty greatest women" which appeared...
Clinton B. Burgess
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Christian Science has healed, and does heal, every kind...
William J. Bonnin
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I have read in a recent issue a reference to the letter by...
Algernon Hervey-Bathurst
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John's understanding of Jesus and his teachings did not...
W. C. Williams
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CAUSE FOR COURAGE
GRACE ROBERTA WASSON.
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HEARERS AND DOERS
Archibald McLellan
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UNFAILING TRUTH
Annie M. Knott
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LOVE AND LAW
John B. Willis
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ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
John V. Dittemore
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Mrs. Ward, Charles E. Taylor, Paul A. Harsch, Nehemiah A. Baker, L. N. Mitchell, Ernest Dayton, C. L. McKesson, Avery Coonley
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I wish to express my gratitude, in part at least, for what...
Anna Ruah Higley
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I have a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science...
Henry M. Marose
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About three years ago, while diligently pursuing the...
Lois Humphries
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It is over eight years ago that I first had the opportunity...
Louise E. Smith
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It seems almost like ingratitude when we fail to express...
Nellie M. Whiteside
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I have had many experiences of healing in Christian Science,...
Jennie Hering with contributions from Lotta E. Fasken
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It is with the deepest sense of gratitude that I acknowledge ...
Katherine B. Crawford
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About five years ago, my mother, who was suffering from...
Josephine E. Forster
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from A. P. Doyle, R. J. Hutcheon