Under the subhead, "Cracks Christian Science," your paper reports a revivalist's attack not on Christian Science, but on his entirely mistaken concept of a religion that is indeed bringing Christ in healing to hundreds of thousands of sick and suffering mortals.
It is folly to condemn that which we do not comprehend, and such condemnation merits the rebukes that have previously appeared in letters printed in these columns.
Christian Scientists do not ignore the claims of disease, but immediately handle such claims in the same manner that Jesus and his disciples did, namely, by destroying them through the spiritual understanding of the allness of God.
A recent editorial in The Record made kindly reference to the beneficent influence of Christian Science on the lives of many people, in giving serenity of mind and in improving health and increasing prosperity, further stating that Christian Scientists are good citizens and ideal neighbors.
It has been pointed out that if Christian Science were really what its critics would have us believe, then Christians would have no more to do with it than our critical friends.
What
a wide and beautiful meaning we find in the word "obedience" when we understand it in the light of Christian Science! It includes, according to the authority of the dictionary, the elements of hearing, listening, and comprehending; also, willing submission.
It
is said that in the ancient dramatic poem of Job occur the first recorded intimations of immortality—of man's awareness that life continues after the physical experience called death.
In
its highest sense, service stands for willing obedience and reverence, a yielding up of self to divine Principle, with love as the controlling factor.
An address given recently at the Kewanee Public Library, as reported in your paper, implies an incomplete and therefore erroneous statement regarding Christian Scientists.
