A NOTEWORTHY
contribution which Christian Science has made in behalf of the spiritualization of mankind, is the work it has accomplished in fixing our gaze, not upon corporeality, but upon spiritual being.
In considering the questions proposed by your correspondent, we must of course remember that they are simply a repetition of those interrogations which have agitated the world from the beginning of time, and which have never been answered,—nor can they be answered, from the standpoint of material philosophy or purely human logic.
Inasmuch as, even at this late day, it is unusual for a socalled orthodox clergyman to pay such a tribute to Christian Science as to acknowledge it "accomplished some good," an incident of this kind is well worthy of comment.
It is reported that "Miss Millar, the Australian evangelist, denounced in specific terms the 'fallacies' of Christian Science," and that "Miss Millar has challenged 'false religions' and 'false doctrines,' chief among which she places Christian Science.
The orthodox minister who has found time to deliver a series of sermons denunciatory of what he believes to be Christian Science, could direct his efforts to a much better purpose.
It is perhaps a pity that "A Christadelphian" has written to request that he be informed on what Christian Scientists base their claim to be faith-healers, because it so happens that in adopting the name of Christian Science, Mrs.
Now and then one hears expressions of disappointment from those who have taken up the study of Christian Science, but who have not immediately realized the peace and harmony which they had expected.
The
statements that God is omniscient, and yet that He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," seem contradictory to the novice in Christian Science who still clings to the old sense of the reality of evil.
