In as much as the dictionary states that heresy is "an opinion, or doctrine, subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles," we will agree with our reverend critic in the statement that Christian Science is heresy.
"Inclosed please find our check for twenty-five dollars, to be used for the Real Estate fund and for The Christian Science Benevolent Association fund.
The newspaper announcement of a sermon on "Christian Science and the Bible upon the Doctrine of Sin" was so misleading that in justice to your readers a word of explanation is offered.
Christian Scientists are pleased to note that the clergyman who criticized their religious beliefs in a sermon as reported in a recent issue, commended the logic by which Christian Science reaches the conclusion that disease and death are errors of mortal mind.
The average human being lives so entirely within the scope of the material senses that the subject of man's spiritual individuality receives scant attention.
It
sometimes seems very discouraging to one who is trying to live in accordance with Christian Science, to have friends or relatives criticize his motives and actions unjustly.
Years
ago, when the writer was very young in Christian Science, an inquirer once said to her, "When the people at the Christian Science testimony meetings testify as to their healing, they so often say that they are grateful not only for their healing, but even more so for the spiritual uplifting.
When
one first takes up earnestly the study of Christian Science, turning to divine Love only after having exhausted all known material methods in an endeavor to regain physical health, to overcome an enslaving appetite or a besetting sin,—in other words, in his endeavor to gain spirituality, his experiences will be somewhat analogous to those encountered in the erection of a material building.
