It seems just a little curious that after thirty years of...

Aurora (Neb.) Republican

It seems just a little curious that after thirty years of self-confessed silence on this important theme, Christian Science, our ministerial friend should now suddenly arise in great consternation and, like the fabled dame, seize his broom to sweep back the tide. For, far from being the frail creature of vague theory and crude negation which he would have his people believe Christian Science to be, it is a great and growing movement whose churches girdle the globe and whose less than a half-century of flourishing existence is one of the marvels of religious history.

It is also a little difficult to see why a clergyman professedly engaged in an unceasing warfare against sin should detach himself from his avocation to attack something which is seeking to accomplish the same end, though undoubtedly in a different manner. People who take the trouble to investigate have no difficulty in finding out that those who make up the Christian Science movement are law abiding, peace loving people, whose lives and characters have been enriched and whose health has been improved by their application of the teachings which make up the statement of this new-old religion.

The clergyman employed in his discussion of the Christian Science text-book a method which it was thought had become rather out of fashion, that of holding up to ridicule a sentence wrenched here and there out of its context. It is such a method as this, indulged in by critics of the Bible, which has been so warmly and justly assailed as unfair by the defenders of the integrity of that book. Such a way of dealing with a book or a philosophy by an unfriendly critic will always result in jumbled statements of contraries. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy contains the full statement of the teachings of Christian Science, and studied with a view to discovering its merit instead of wilfully controverting its logic, it is invariably found to be an illuminating volume which interprets the Bible so that to thousands it is a new book and its spiritual meaning becomes its dominant aspect.

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