Article August 25, 1917 Issue

It was a wise Englishman of broad sympathies who said,...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

Kingston (Jamaica) Chronicle

It was a wise Englishman of broad sympathies who said, "No one must judge any religion by the picture drawn of it by an antagonist." The wisdom of this saying was instanced in Kingston last month by what a medical opponest said about Christian Science, as reported in the Chronicle. The propriety of an attack on a religion which heals the sick, made by a district medical officer introduced by a bishop, may be the subject of different opinions; but it can be safely said that such an undertakind calls for more anthentic information and more fairness than was displayed on the occasion in question.

Christian Science has become the religion of a steadily increasing body of earnest and intelligent people to be found wherever the English language is spoken and to some extent in other countries. They have adopted it as the true interpretation of the words and works of Christ Jesus. It has been proved to them by convincing observation and experience. It has stood the Master's test of all religions, "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

Christian Science not only has conferred inestimable benefits on its adherents, but has exerted a wholesome influence on the entire mass of human thought. That it has wrought beneficial changes in the theory and practice of medicine has been admitted by more than one representative of the medical profession. That it has wrought profound changes in the religious thought of mankind has been admitted scantily by members of the clerical profession; but this fact can be clearly proved by comparing the teachings of Christian Science with the trend and change of religious thought since 1875, when the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was first published.

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