In a Christmas message on the subject of "Peace, Peace, Peace," statements were made which do not express a Christmas spirit toward Christian Science and toward its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.
A critic objects to the reply to the Dean of Durham's sermon in your issue of recent date, particularly to the statement that "Christian Science accepts unreservedly the teachings of the gospel of Christ, as taught in the New Testament," and goes on to make the sweeping assertion that "Christian Science denies all the great doctrines of the New Testament.
He
who confounded the wise men in the temple at Jerusalem was more clearly understood by the "poor in spirit" who followed him to the Galilean hillside and heard him say, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
The
writer of the ninety-third psalm gives great weight to the statutes of the law, the Ten Commandments, when he says, "Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.
The clergyman who has undertaken to criticize Christian Science propounds a number of questions, many of which in the light of actual facts are merely frivolous.
