An article in the Times-Picayune quotes remarks of a prominent Chicago physician, who referred to Christian Science as one of the "little foxes" which interfere with public health work.
Your New Year greetings and advice have the right ring, are lofty in sentiment, and are to be commended, with the exception of the reference to Christian Science, which, though kindly in intent, might be misleading to the uninformed.
If the insistence of Christian Science upon the allness of God and the consequent nothingness of matter seems startling or troublesome to mortal mind, this does not warrant a contemptuous dismissal of the proposition without investigation.
I Rose
and missed the glowing lightThat yestermorn had made earth bright,And glancing westward thrilled to seeThe flaming red sent back to meFrom windows in an old barn loft,Which glowed like jewels rich and soft.
Christian Science
in its presentation of Truth is helping mankind to use every least revelation of God's word and is teaching us to understand what Paul meant when he said, "For in him we live, and move, and have our being.
One
fact which has greatly impressed the interested observer of the Christian Science movement is the impetus which it has given to the systematic study of the Bible.
"Final
deliverance from error, whereby we rejoice in immortality, boundless freedom, and sinless sense, is not reached through paths of flowers nor by pinning one's faith without works to another 's vicarious effort".
