Nothing is more foreign to the teaching and practice of Christian Science than the endeavor to use it in the acquirement of any material thing, as such.
In reply to a recent article in which Christian Scientists are criticized in connection with arguments made for the establishment of a national department of health, permit me to say that Christian Scientists are working just as intelligently and effectively to prevent and cure disease as any other class of people, and that this statement is provable.
Christian Science and methods which seek to combine drugs and prayer are not only not akin, philosophically or otherwise, but they bear no resemblance to each other in any important particular.
Inasmuch as there is hardly an individual in any community who has not at least one friend that has experienced the benefits of Christian Science and become a "believer," it is indeed a surprise that a clergyman, whose duty it is to bring to suffering humanity the salvation taught and practised by our Master, should make the statements of our critic.
If Christian Science has done nothing else for modern religious thought, it is worth while simply for the demonstration it affords in crowded congregations, assembled through no enticements of pulpit oratory or celebrated singers and organists, but chiefly through the spontaneous impulse of personal religious experience.
